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 791
tear it out Avith the fingers; butif the shaft is selected as the site of the experiment the nail willbe found as solidly seated as if driven into wood. This differenceis entirely dependent upon the disposition of the compact tissue,and it is evident, therefore, that before a surgeon operates on… … Fig. 830.—Gersters turn-buckles for reducing difficult fractures, especially of thelong, large bones such as the femur and humerus. They may be used to advantage insome cases though it is seldom that proper angulation of the fragments and manipulationfail in accomplishing reduction in the open…
Fractures · Dislocations · X-rays
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