Cases to illustrate the relationship which exists between wryneck and congenital haematoma of the sterno-mastoid muscle / by D'Arcy Power.

  • Power, D'Arcy, 1855-1941.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Cases to illustrate the relationship which exists between wryneck and congenital haematoma of the sterno-mastoid muscle / by D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the right sterno-mastoid was rigid and thickened along its whole length. Both heads of the muscle were divided. Case 10.—Annie W—, set. 1 month ; first child ; mother aged 51; married fifteen years ; no miscarriages. Breech presentation; very hard labour; no instruments used. Haamatoma of the right sterno-mastoid in its lower third. The child keeps its head persistently to the right side. Case 11.—Edith H—, set. 4 months. Sixth child. Transverse presentation. Version. Haematoma of the left sterno-mastoid in its lower third. The swelling was first noticed fourteen days after birth. It was getting smaller when the child was last seen, and there was no suspicion of a wryneck. The following cases have already been published by Mr. Clutton in the eighteenth volume of the ' St. Thomas's Hospital Reports/ in the paper to which re- ference has already been made. Case 12.—Harriet C—, set. 6 weeks. Tumour of the right sterno-mastoid. No evidence of syphilis. Foot presentation. Twelve hours in labour. Great traction was made upon the presenting feet. In four months it is noted that the tumour had quite gone. This patient came again as an out-patient at seventeen months, and again at two years of age, with well-marked wryneck from contraction of the right sterno-mastoid. No contraction of the trapezius. Mr. Clutton was about to treat this case by tenotomy when it disappeared from his clinic. Case 13.—Charles C—, aet. 2 weeks. Tumour of the left sterno-mastoid at the junction of the upper with the middle third. It was a large tumour, but apparently confined within the sheath of the muscle. No evidence of syphilis. Mother aged twenty-three. First confine-