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Ankle Injuries/diagnostic imaging , Ankle Injuries/history , Military Medicine/history , Radiography/history , Wounds, Gunshot/diagnostic imaging , Wounds, Gunshot/history , Adult , Ankle Injuries/surgery , Cuba , History, 19th Century , Humans , Male , Spanish-American War, 1898 , Wounds, Gunshot/surgeryABSTRACT
There is a commonly held belief that Percival Pott sustained that ankle fracture that bears his name. This probably is not true; the injury was more likely a fracture of the tibial shaft, as suggested by careful reading of the account of the accident left to us by his son-in-law.
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Ankle Injuries/history , Famous Persons , Fractures, Open/history , Paraplegia/history , Tibial Fractures/history , Tuberculosis, Spinal/history , England , History, 18th Century , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
The term Volkmann's triangle for the avulsed posterior edge of the tibia in fracture-dislocations of the ankle is incorrect. Volkmann did not publish any articles relating to the posterior edge of the tibia. Credit should go to Henry Earle, who was an outstanding British surgeon of the first half of 19th century. He described avulsion of the posterior edge of the tibia in 1828. In 1823 he also published a monograph entitled Practical observations in surgery in which he described a specially designed bed for the conservative treatment of proximal fractures of the femur.
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Ankle Injuries/history , Femoral Fractures/history , Joint Dislocations/history , Tibial Fractures/history , Ankle Injuries/therapy , Femoral Fractures/therapy , History, 19th Century , Humans , Joint Dislocations/therapy , Terminology as Topic , Tibial Fractures/therapyABSTRACT
Although most of the controversy surrounding the treatment of intra-articular, vertical impact fractures of the lower tibia is due to the difficult clinical problems they pose, there is a minor, ongoing dispute regarding nomenclature. In the last several decades, these fractures have been called either pilon or pylon fractures. This study traces the etymology of both terms and relates them to their usage in the orthopaedic literature. Based on the origins of each word, and how they were introduced into the orthopaedic literature, it is concluded that the correct term for an intra-articular, vertical impact fracture of the lower tibia is pilon fracture.
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Ankle Injuries/classification , Terminology as Topic , Tibial Fractures/classification , Ankle Injuries/history , Ankle Injuries/physiopathology , England , France , History, 20th Century , Humans , Tibial Fractures/history , Tibial Fractures/physiopathologyABSTRACT
During a scientific examination in July 1999 both crypts below the St. Martin's Church in Grünstadt, Germany, were opened and 9 coffins from the county family of Leiningen examined. This paper is concentrating on one of these persons: Georg Hermann (1679-1751), count of Leiningen-Westerburg-Altleiningen, who gave during the 18. century the city its barock character. He was also responsible for the rebuilding of the church. His skeleton revealed interesting pathological changes. Few years before his death the count had the accident to get run over by a heavy wagon which crushed the distal part of his legs. The fractures healed, but gave him an ancylotic and shortened left leg, which must have caused him a lot of suffering in his last years.
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Accidents, Traffic , Ankle Injuries/history , Famous Persons , Leg Length Inequality/history , Tibial Fractures/history , Germany , History, 18th Century , Humans , MaleABSTRACT
Ambroise Paré and Percivall Pott were preeminent clinicians, writers, and educators who advanced the cause of surgery through their independent thinking and insightful observations. In addition to their legacies and numerous enduring contributions, both men sustained open tibial fractures that were successfully managed during times when most often amputation was prescribed for such injuries. This article explores their lives and their fractures.
