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AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY

RALPH COLP, M.D.; HAIG KASABACH, M.D.; SIGMUND MAGE, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1933;27(4):658-675.

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One of the essential factors in the healing of any fracture is a good and free supply of blood. This was first emphasized by Hilgeneiner,¹ Bier¹ and others, who advised the institution of measures to promote passive hyperemia in an effort to increase the variable phenomena usually present in all fractures. Leriche² has shown that following any injury, a reflex vasoconstriction occurs which is soon followed by vasodilatation about the area of the initial trauma. If, however, a periarterial neurectomy or a ganglionectomy is performed, the primary contraction of the involved vessels is followed within a few hours by a vasodilatation of the arterial tree and a marked increase in the blood volume. If these procedures produce an active hyperemia, they should then have a field of usefulness in the treatment of certain groups and types of fractures. Much experimental work has been recorded in recent years . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Surgical Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, and the Department of Roentgenology of the Presbyterian Hospital.

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