The mechanism of dislocations and fracture of the hip . Litholapaxy, or, Rapid lithotrity with evacuation / by Henry Jacob Bigelow.

  • Henry Jacob Bigelow
Date:
1900
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Credit: The mechanism of dislocations and fracture of the hip . Litholapaxy, or, Rapid lithotrity with evacuation / by Henry Jacob Bigelow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    DISLOCATION BELOW THE ANTERIOR INFERIOR SPINE OF THE ILIUM, OR SUB-SPINOUS. The head of the bone ranges along the pubes, displaced ac¬ cording to the violence and direction of the injury. If thrust Fig. 29.2 directly upward, the bone may lie beneath the Y ligament and the inferior iliac spine; but this displacement requires that in,T tpe neck. Of the muscles, the external obturator was relaxed; the pvriformis, internal obturator, and gemelli appeared elongated. 1 Pubic dislocation nearer the spine. The limb is here seen everted, but is usually a little more advanced and abducted. Nelaton, however, describes a similar absence of flexion (“ Clinical Lectures on Surgery by M. Nelaton,” from Notes taken by W. F. Atlee, M.D., Phila., > >]?• - )• 2 Sub-spinous dislocation. The neck of the bone is seen lying beneath the Y ligament, which is tightly stretched across it. (From a photograp i