Tuberculous diseases of bones and joints : their pathology, symptoms, and treatment / by Sir W. Watson Cheyne.

  • Cheyne, William Watson, Sir, 1852-1932.
Date:
1911
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    in the first type of synovial thickening which I have described. They are taken from a case of hip-joint disease in a girl, aged 5, who was admitted with the following history :—Two and a half months before admission, she fell and struck her left hip. She had had no symptoms of hip-joint disease pre- Fig. 5.—Transverse section of the ligamentum teres from a case of tuberculous disease of the hip, magnified 3 diameters. The invasion of the ligament by- tuberculous tissue is well seen all round, and the tubercles can actually be made out at the deeper part. The ragged edge is where caseation is actively taking viously, but the parents thought that she had been losing flesh, and she had suffered from cough. Symptoms of hip- joint disease rapidly developed after the accident, and a few days before admission the head of the femur became dis- located forwards and upwards, and there was evidently fluid in the joint. I excised the joint, and clear fluid, contain- mg white flocculent matter, was evacuated, and a dense