Fractures and dislocations, diagnosis and treatment (1915)
Preston, Miller Edwin, 1879- [from old catalog], Stover, H. G. [from old catalog] · St. Louis, C. V. Mosby company · leaf 650
it is usnally the resnlt of violent adduction orabduction of the leg. T-fractures however are usually the resultof violence transmitted to the upper end of the bone in the longaxis of the tibia. When this mechanism obtains in the productionof fracture of the upper end of the tibia the shaft is… … Fig. 674.—Lateral view of the knee before the epiphyses have joined the shaft.Note how the iipper epiphysis of the tibia extends downward anteriorly to include thetubercle of the tibia. This formation is spoken of as the lipping of the upper tibialepiphysis. a height in which the patient lands on…
Fractures · Dislocations · X-rays
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