...sweep through the ligamentum patellae and lateral ligaments. A thin slice of bune is to be sawn off the lower end of the femur and the upper end of the tibia. The diseased pulpy membrane is to be removed by the knife, scissors, and scraping, the freshly sawn...

...and the head of the radius. Thus in the first five years we have the most of the important epiphyses of the long bones; the lower end of the femur and the upper end of the tibia, as before mentioned, being in evidence at or soon after birth. In the age period eleven to fourteen...

...the diaphyses somewhat earlier in women than in men. Separation of the epiphj-sis is most common at the lower end of the femur and the upper end of the tibia. Traumatic separations of the epiphysis are described on pages 575 and 589. The symptoms of epiphyseal...

...extremities. The tumors are found oftenest in the upper end of the humérus, the lower end of the radius, the lower end of the femur, and the upper end of the tibia. The flat bones are also frequently affected. The round sarcoma-cells possess no fibrillating power...

...growth of the limb, which, it will be remembered, depends so largely upon the epiphysial cartilages of the lower end of the femur and the upper end of the tibia. In children, therefore, formal excision has been largely replaced by arthrectomy, although there can...

...disease occurring in adults. In some cases examination of the bones detects crepitation, and fractures at the lower end of the femur and the upper end of the tibia or less commonly elsewhere are not infrequent. According to Barlow, the sternum and the costal cartilages...

...disease occurring in adults. In some cases examination of the bones detects crepitation, and fractures at the lower end of the femur and the upper end of the tibia or less commonly elsewhere are not infrequent. According to Barlow, the sternum and the costal cartilages...

...Plate 57. FRACTURES IN AND ABOUT THE KNEE-JOINT. FIG. 1.—Normal course of the epiphyseal lines at the lower end of the femur and the upper end of the tibia and fíbula. Separation of these epiphyses is not very rare both on the femur and on the tibia. But...

...diseases are subject to this trouble, although they may not be immediately affected. The process begins at the lower end of the femur and the upper end of the tibia, contrary to the theory of embolism, which suggests the idea of infection through the nutrient arteries....

...Moreover, " the diminution of the inorganic component parts liad so far proceeded that the neck and lower end of the femur and the upper end of the tibia had become quite cartilaginous, soft, and flexible." Later the bones hypertrophied, especially in young...