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Volkmann's ischaemic contracture benefited by muscle slide operation.
A bo aged twelve years fell in 1949 and sustained a supracondvlar fracture of the right elbow with backward displacement of the lower fragment. On tile same day the fracture reduced. The hospital notes are scant ’ , but it seems likely that there some vascular damage at that time which escaped notice. Radiographs showed persistence of the backward displacement of the lower fragment, and ten day...
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Ischaemia is a rare complication of injury to a limb but must be excluded in every case. Two distinct types occur: Type I, where a proximal arterial injury gives rise to ischaemia distally; and Type II, where a direct injury gives rise to ischaemia at the site of the injury. Whatever the nature of the insult, an ischaemic contracture only develops as a result of swelling of the soft tissues whe...
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Volkmann’s ischaemia is still an uncommon condition. During a fifteen-year period in Platt’s fracture clinic only eight cases were recognised in 21,000 fractures. All were in the upper extremity. To quote from Parkes (1945): “The condition occurs most frequently in the flexor muscles of the forearm, usually following supracondylar fracture of the humerus. It is perhaps unfortunate that attentio...
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The etiology of Volkmann’s contracture has been much debated. Incorrect bandaging (Volkmann 1881), venous occlusion (Murphy 1914, Brooks 1922, Jepson 1926), subfascial haematoma (Moulonguet and Sen#{232}que 1928, Jos#{233} Jorge 1925), arterial spasm (Griffiths 1940) are some of the causes that have been suggested. Leriche (1928) likened the changes in the muscles to those seen in cardiac and p...
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DESCRIPTION Patient is a 65-year-old right-hand-dominant man. He presents with a 15-year history of progressive left small finger contracture with occasional palmar pain. On examination, he has a palpable palmar cord. Contraction of left small finger metacarpophalangeal (MP) joint was noted to be 60 • .
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British volume
سال: 1951
ISSN: 0301-620X,2044-5377
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620x.33b3.299