A report on excisions of the head of the femur for gunshot injury.

Date:
1869
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Credit: A report on excisions of the head of the femur for gunshot injury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. Page. Circular No. 2, S. G. O., 1869 3 Preliminary Observations , 5 Historical Review g Excisions at the Hip in the War of the Rebellion \g Primary Operations 20 Intermediate Operations 33 Secondary Operations ; 43 Unclassified or Doubtful Cases 54 Recapitulation 53 Additional Cases of Excision at the Hip 59 Temporization and Amputation at the Hip compared with Excision 62 Review of Cases cited by Demme, Pirogoff, and Gross, in favor of expectant treatment 63 Series of one hundred and twenty-two cases of alleged gunshot fracture involving the hip and treated on the expectant plan 65 Series of thirty-seven cases of gunshot fracture of the femur, with slight injury to the acetabulum 85 Series of five cases of gunshot fractures of the acetabulum without injury to the head of the femur 89 Series of twenty-two cases of gunshot injury of the hip-joint without fracture 90 Series of twelve cases of secondary traumatic arthritis 92 Series of seventeen cases of fracture of the trochanters, with possible or probable injury to the hip-joint 94 Series of twelve cases of fractures of the trochanters, with secondary traumatic arthritis 96 Series of seven alleged examples of gunshot injury of the hip-joint 98 Series of twenty-two cases of supposed gunshot injury to the hip-joint, not well-authenticated 99 Series of eighteen cases treated by the extraction of fragments 102 Coxo-femoral amputations 107 Comments by Dr. W. lhomson 113 Dr. Gibson's ca^se 117 Concluding Observations 121 Letter from Dr. Billings P23 Notes by European Surgeons 127 Method of operating and after-treatment 128 Table of primary excisions 132 Table of intermediate excisions 135 Table of secondary excisions and summary 137 Bibliography 138