Exsection of the hip-joint / by C.T. Poore.

  • Poore, Charles T.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Exsection of the hip-joint / by C.T. Poore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    three inches. Dr. Sayre, who has the speeiincn in his imiseum, has kindly allowed nie io examine it, and to him, as M'ell as to Dr. Si>eiieer, I am under great ohlif^ations. The liead of the femur is se[)arated from the shaft, and is cai-ious. The upper ])()i-tion of tlie shaft, tor the distance ot an inch or more, is surrounded b}' an irre^nilar deposit of bone. The external comi)act tissue does not seem to ho. re- duced in thickness, nor is the medullary cavity enlarged. Tliere seems to have been a total necrosis of the np])er two- thirds of the shaft.
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