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FORTY-SECOND REPORT OF PROGRESS IN ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY
PHILIP D. WILSON, M.D.;
LLOYD T. BROWN, M.D.;
M. N. SMITH-PETERSEN, M.D.;
JOHN G. KUHNS, M.D.;
EDWIN F. CAVE, M.D.;
RALPH K. GHORMLEY, M.D.;
MURRAY S. DANFORTH, M.D.;
GEORGE PERKINS;
ARTHUR VAN DESSEL, M.D.;
C. HERMANN BUCHOLZ, M.D.
Arch Surg. 1930;21(3):539-554.
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CONGENITAL DEFORMITIES
Torticollis.
—Howell1 operated on twenty patients by means of a subcutaneous tenotomy of the sternal head of the sternomastoid muscle, with nineteen complete cures. He used a plaster of paris cast for four weeks; this was then bivalved and retained for another four weeks. Treatment by a masseuse completed the cure in from three to six months.
[ED. NOTE.—The tenotomy of the sternal portion alone seems to us inadequate in many cases. The simplicity of the open operation hardly warrants the risk entailed in a subcutaneous operation.]
Congenital Dislocation of the Hip.
—Fairbank2 chose congenital dislocation of the hip as the subject for the Lady Jones lecture at Liverpool in 1929. The first half of the lecture he devoted to pathologic anatomy, basing his remarks on experience in fifty open operations on the hip joint and on a study of thirty-six specimens, many of which
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Author Affiliations
BOSTON; ROCHESTER, MINN.; PROVIDENCE, R. I.; LONDON, ENGLAND; LOUVAIN, BELGIUM; HALLE, GERMANY
Footnotes
This Report of Progress is based on a review of 226 articles selected from 638 titles dealing with orthopedic surgery appearing in the medical literature between Nov. 30, 1929, and May 1, 1930. Only those papers which seem to represent progress have been selected for note and comment.
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