Plastic surgery; its principles and practice (1919) (14803485003)

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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11. Pig. 710.—The relief of a contracture of the neck with a flap from the shoulder anddeltoid region (Miitter).—The flap A is shown in position after the neck contracture hasbeen relieved. The area B, from which the flap was raised, should be grafted. Pig. 711.—The relief of a contracture of the neck with a flap from the chest wall(Morestin).—The contracture has been relieved and the large flap shifted up from the chestwall to fill the defect. Tracheal Defects Occasionally the plastic surgeon is called upon to repair a tracheal Ifistula, or even to reconstruct a portion of the trachea which may havebeen destroyed by trauma, operation, ulceration, or a burn. In a recent paper on the experimental transplantation of the tracheaBurket found that the normal trachea was sterile from the larynx to thehilus of the lung. He was able completely to remove and replace in thesame dog successfully as many as eight tracheal rings, but his iso- SURGERY OF THE NECK, TRUNK, AND EXTREMITIES 615
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Fig. 712.—Contracture of the chin, neck and chest following a burn.—i. The conditionof the patient when he came under my care. He had been operated on several times before,and nearly all of the available usable material had been exhausted. Note the scar on theface, neck, chest, shoulders and arms. 2. Taken eighteen months after the first photo-graph. Note the improvement in the condition of the cheek and chin, and the partialrelease of the arms.