The pathology and treatment of white swelling of the knee / by A.B. Judson.

  • Judson, Adoniram Brown, 1837-1916.
Date:
1899
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Credit: The pathology and treatment of white swelling of the knee / by A.B. Judson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    of the left knee; on May 7th a Thomas splint and on May 13, 1878, a fixative brace were applied. In the following summer a sinus appeared and the ab- scess discharged for four months. Several pieces of cancellous bone were extruded, one of them being evidently a fragment from the surface underlying the articular surface of a femoral condyle. The fixative brace was removed in February and the Thomas splint in April, 1879. There was ^ of an inch lengthening and recovery with normal motion and locomotor ability. As the patient was traveling he could not be present at the meeting. Inspection, however, would have revealed nothing objective, except a depressed scar, \]/2 x 1, attached to the inner condyle. He says that when being measured for clothes the limb is a ^ of an inch longer than the unaffected one. There were exceptional reasons for expecting a good result in this case. Among them was the probability that the affection was of a comparatively mild character. It was not the typ- ical insidious osteitic invasion, after which we may, as a rule, be glad to secure a strong, straight and useful limb, albeit motion may be limited or absent from the joint.