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Title: Atlas and epitome of traumatic fractures and dislocations
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Helferich, Heinrich, 1851- Bloodgood, Joseph Colt, 1867-1935, ed
Subjects: Fractures Dislocations Fractures, Bone Dislocations
Publisher: Philadelphia London : W.B. Saunders & Company
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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e catheter. The patient succumbed to the severity of the injury. Fig. 3.—Fracture of the innominate bone (not a fracture of thepelvic ring). the discharge of blood from the urethra or the admixtureof blood in the urine. The introduction of a catheteris necessary both for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes(permanent catheter). If catheterization is unsuccessful,there is imminent danger of the urine infiltrating the sur-rounding cellular tissues and leading to fatal consequencesthrough gangrene and sepsis. Hence immediate and freeincision from without, as in external urethrotomy, and,under certain circumstances, a high incision (suprapubic)and so-called retrograde catheterization may be justifiable.The latter operation should not be attempted without thefacilities of a hospital; but any physician may properly beexpected to incise the cellular tissue surrounding theurethra and at least establish the diagnosis of a severe in-jury, so that the proper treatment may be instituted. TabAff-
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