RT Journal
A1 Norley TT
T1 ACromioclavicular separations and discussions of papers
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1959
FD March 28
VO 169
IS 13
SP 1510
OP 1510
DO 10.1001/jama.1959.03000300106023
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.03000300106023
AB To the Editor:— 
    The report on suspension cast for acromioclavicular separations and clavicular fractures, published in The Journal (169:672-675 [Feb. 14] 1959) and presented at the A. M. A. meeting in San Francisco last June, leaves much to be desired. The paper gives the impression that many patients have been treated this way and that the results were good. However, what we saw when the paper was given was most inconclusive. It appeared that the acromioclavicular joints were still separated in the cases shown and that the suspension cast gave no better results than did a posterior figure-of-eight support in bilateral clavicular fractures. It is unfortunate that the discussion of this paper was not also presented in The Journal. In it these points were clearly brought out and doubt was cast on the value of this method of treatment. Many papers published in various journals lose their value when