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 651
knee, and has been mentioned under that heading. The upper epiplwsis of the tibia is ossified from a single centerwhich makes its appearance soon after birth and joins the shaftat about the twentieth year. The epiphyseal cartilage correspondsroughly to a horizontal plane about one inch below the… … Fig. 676. Figs. 675 and 676.—An anomaly in the ossification of the upper end of the tibiawhich is likely to be mistaken for fracture of the tibia. A close examination of anX-ray plate (not print) will show the supposed fragment to be surrounded by a layerof compact tissue and the contour of ossicle…
Fractures · Dislocations · X-rays
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