CHRONIC NECROSIS OF FIBULA AND TIBIA, OF TEN YEARS DURATION; AMPUTATION AT LOWER THIRD OF FEMUR; RE-AMPUTATION AT UPPER THIRD; RECOVERY.
Abstract
The following case is deemed worthy to be placed on record on account of its interest from a surgical point of view, and also on account of its rather unusual course and termination.
Fred W., colored, set. 15; parents had never had syphilis or struma. He was considered a healthy child until his fifth year, when there was a simple fracture of the tibia of the right leg at the middle third, caused by falling out of bed; two or three months after union the limb began to swell, the bone...