Treatise on orthopedic surgery / by Edward H. Bradford and Robert W. Lovett.

  • Bradford, Edward G. (Edward Green), 1848-1928.
Date:
1905
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    nencc of the spine. ' Lannelongue ■ found a very marked narrowing of the cahbre of the aorta in many cases. Sometimes it was reduced even to a mere sUt. A cure, however, is possible even in cases with very advanced de- formity. This cine can come about in one of two ways: (i) By ankylosis be- tween the surfaces of the bodies of the diseased vertebrae—a very slow process, which requires years for its completion; (2) by the deposit of bone in the inflammatory material, thrown out around the column by the action of the formative ostitis which accom- panies the destructive process, the vertebral column being supported, as it were, in surrounding bone. —a Fig. 15.—Lower Dorsal Region. Exten.sive tuber- culous softening involving two vertebrae ; inter- vertebral disc destroyed. Knuckle very slight, probably because the focus was in llie centres of the vertebral bodies, and laterally destruction was not complete, a, Tuberculous cavity, in- volving centres of bodies of two vertebrse. (Nichols.) Fig. 16.—Distortion of Aorta. From a case of spinal caries in an adult. At one point marked constriction of the aorta. Angular deformity very marked, a, Constriction of aorta. (Dwight.) OCCURRENCE AND ETIOLOGY. Sex.—Sex does not ajjpear to be an important factor in causing Pott's di.sease, though statistics vary somewhat. Age.—The disea.se is more common in childhood. Mohr found, in ' Dwiglit: Amcr. Jour. Med. Sciences. January, 1897. •Rev. dc Chir.. Aiif^iist loth. 1S.S6, ]j. 671.