Radiography, x-ray therapeutics and radium therapy (1915) (14755252924)

Identifier: radiographyxrayt00knoxuoft (find matches)

Title: Radiography, x-ray therapeutics and radium therapy

Year: 1915 (1910s)

Authors: Knox, Robert, 1868-1928

Subjects: Radiography Radiotherapy X-rays

Publisher: London : A. & C. Black

Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Aultio-puslerior. Lateral. Fig. 139.—Fracture of shaft of ulna (the result of a gunshot wound). and the displacement may be considerable. One or other bone may beinvolved in injuries at the elbow-joint or wrist-joint. Injuries at the Wrist-joint Fracture of the lower end of the radius and ulna is included in thedescription of the common Colles fracture. The results of the analysis of alarge number of cases of fracture at the wrist-joint investigated by Dr.R. W. A. Salmond and the author may be quoted (Lancet, Nov. 2, 1912). (a) The Radius.—This shows injury in 93 per cent, of the total number ofcases. The large percentage is without doubt due to the important part thelower end of this bone takes in the mechanism of the wrist-joint. Most injuriesat the wrist are carried up from the hand and are transmitted through the radius,hence the great frequency of damage to the lower end of the bone. The radiusalone is injured in 41 per cent, of the total number of cases, showing that, while

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PLATE XIII.—Fractukes in Forearm, Whist, and Hand. a, Fracture of terminal ^ihalaiix of tluinib, backward displacement. Lateral and antero-posterior views. b, Fracture of trapezium. <, Fracture tlirough lower eml of shaft of radius, very little displacement.d. Non-union fracture of radius and ulna, formation of false joints. Ta

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1915

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