Identifier: plasticsurgeryit00davi (find matches)
Title: Plastic surgery; its principles and practice
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Davis, John Staige, 1866-1933
Subjects: Surgery, Plastic
Publisher: Philadelphia, P. Blakiston's son & co
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons

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PiG. 852.—Kinematic plastic amputation of the arm (A. P. C. Ashhurst: Annals ofSurgery, December, 1914).—-i. Inner surface of the arm. The flap of skin and subcuta-neous fat AB is to cover the end of the bone. A circular amputation is done at CD.2. Outer surface of the arm. The flap AB is sutured to the line AB. tion, and in due time this mass of tissue may be transferred to thestump, which it covers with a soft resistant pad. A similar methodmay be used to lengthen the stump by wrapping a cuff of skin and fataround the bone. :<CUT END OF BICEPS
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CUT END OF TWCEPS Pig. 853.—Kinematic plastic amputation of the arm (A. P. C. Ashhurst: Annals ofSurgery, December, 1914).—i. Diagrammatic view of the end of the stump. The flap AB,is sutured to the line AB. The skin overlying the muscular flaps is sutured around themas a cylinder. 2. The biceps has been sutured to the triceps, and a rubber tube is passedthrough the loop before suturing. KINEMATIC PLASTICS The possibility of utilizing the muscles of the stump to impartmovement to an artificial limb was first advanced by G. Vanghetti(an Italian physician), in 1896. In a series of papers since then he has SURGERY OF THE LOWER EXTREMITY 711 again and again advanced his theory, but up to the time of the greatwar there had probably been only about twenty cases treated alongthe lines suggested by him. The great number of cases requiring

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