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DISLOCATION OF THE CERVICAL SPINE, NECESSITATING FIXATION AT OPEN OPERATION 1
Author(s) -
AINSLIE JAMES P.
Publication year - 1940
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1940.tb07138.x
Subject(s) - medicine , fixation (population genetics) , cervical spine , dislocation , surgery , vertebra , reduction (mathematics) , composite material , population , materials science , geometry , environmental health , mathematics
Summary. 1. The treatment of a patient suffering from dislocation of the cervical spine is described in whom the usual non‐operative treatment failed to achieve reduction. 2. At open operation full reduction could not be attained and dislocation recurred in spite of fixation in plaster of Paris. 3. For mechanical fixation of two vertebra a device (Figure V) is described which proved extremely successful in this case.