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Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 1936;18:529-531.
© 1936 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Inc

FRACTURE OF ANKYLOSED EXTREMITIES

SIGMUND EPSTEIN M.D.

The completely welded, eburnated articulation of two long bones of the extremities, known as true ankylosis, is a mass of bone of great strength. If such bone is subjected to sufficient violence, fracture will result through an adjacent thinner juxta-articular segment.


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