TY - JOUR
AU - Wilkie, D P D
AB - 366 THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY BY D. P. D. WILKIE, EDINBURGH. CONGENITAL synostosis of the bones of the forearm is a malformation which has attracted little attention in this country. Although there are now over forty cases recorded in medical literature, it must still be regarded as one of the rarer deformities of the forearm bones, congenital absence of the radius and congenital dislocation of the head of the radius without synostosis being more frequently met with. The absence of all mention of this deformity in most text-books of surgery must, however, have led to many cases being passed unrecognized. Thus it is significant that since my attention was drawn to it less than a year ago, I have met with three cases. The first record of the condition is that by Sandifortl (17g3), and in his “Museum Anatomicus” a typical specimen is figured. R. W. Smith2 (1852) described a similar specimefi, and in Malgaigne’ss (1856) work on “Fractures and Dislocations” there is a drawing of an undoubted case. Allen4 (1880) also described a dissected specimen showing this condition. It was not till 1893, however, that the first accurate clinical record of a case was made by SChmid,a 
TI - Congenital radio-ulnar synostosis
JO - British Journal of Surgery
DO - 10.1002/bjs.1800010305
DA - 1913-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/congenital-radio-ulnar-synostosis-gHYhOFk0kk
SP - 366
EP - 375
VL - 1
IS - 3
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