Volume 1

Descriptive catalogue of the specimens illustrating surgical pathology in the museum of University College, London.

  • University College, London. Museum.
Date:
1899-1906
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Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the specimens illustrating surgical pathology in the museum of University College, London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inents, some of the smaller of which are missing. The three chief fragments iuelude the small trochanter and the posterior and anterior parts of the great trochanter. 4259 4. The upper part of a right femur, the head and neck of wliich have been separated 'by a fraofcui-e passing round the base of the latter. The neck has been driven deeply into the cancellous tissue of the great trochanter, and has caused a fracture passing downwards from the upper border of the trochanter iu a direction parallel to the posterior intertrochanteric line, and reaching as low as the small IrochaAter. 1232 5. A vertical section of a left humerus, from a young subject, showing a transverse fracture through the middle of the shaft. 2635 The other half of the specimen is fully described in No. 13. 6. The leg-bones of the right side, showing an oblique fracture at the junction of the lower and middle thirds of the shaft of the tibia. The line of the fracture passes from above downwards and forwards, and repair has occurred after dis- placement of the lower fragment upwards behind the upper, the wedge-like end of which stands out prominently upon the front of the bone. The fibula has been fractured at a somewhat higher level than the tibia and union has occurred, the upper end of the lower fragment overlapping the upper fragment on its inner surface. 3123 7. The upper half of a right femur in which a comminuted fracture involves the trochanters. From the upper border of the great trochanter a fracture passes vertically along its outer surface, and is continued downwards in a spiral direction across the anterior and inner aspects of the shaft, reaching the linea aspera 12 cm. below the smaU trochanter. At this point the fracture is joined by another, which passes longitudinally downwards from the small trochanter. 6747 8. The lower three-fourths of a right tibia of which the shaft has been recently fractured in an oblique direction from without inwards and downwards, about 7 cm. above the articular surface, the hne of this fracture in front assuming a spiral direction. On the inner and posterior aspects two longitudinal fissures, nearly parallel with each other, run upwards from the seat of fracture for a distance of 12 cm. 3999 9. A calvaria extensively fractured as the result of a blow on the right parietal eminence. At this spot two fragments are entirely separated, and from it one fissure runs forwards across the frontal bone, and another backwards through the lambda into the left parietal bone. Several smaller fissures radiate from the seat of the in]ury, some of which are confined to the outer and some to the inner table of the bone. 10. A calvaria in the right parietal bone of which, close to the sagittal suture is a clepressed fracture, involving a circular area of bone about 3 cm. iu diameter The parts are firmly consolidated, the edges of the aperture being smooths rounded and the suriaces of the depressed bone being marked by furrows and sepfrateT ^'^'S^^^'^^ into%vhich it tas 5177 B 2