Compound Complicated Fracture of Left Humerus at the Elbow-Joint: Primary Amputation: Recovery
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A case of compound comminuted fracture always requires particular care in its management, but as a matter of necessity does not require sucli a severe measure as amputation. But there are circumstances under which even this severe mode of treatment is resorted to. Although opinions vary as to the propriety of performing primary amputation in individual cases, yet it will be observed that some of the qualifying circumstances have been uniformly mentioned by all hands to indicate primary amputation. The presence of one or more of such circumstances and conditions makes the case a " complicated" one. These circumstances do not merely refer to the outward condition rif the limb, but also to the
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