TY  - JOUR
T1  - THe treatment of fractures; some practical points
AU  - WARBASSE JP
Y1  - 1909/03/13
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.25420370015002d
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 857
EP  - 860
VL  - LII
IS  - 11
N2  - The most important step in the treatment of fractures is that the surgeon shall have made a diagnosis of the condition which he is about to treat. To undertake the treatment without an adequate picture in one's mind of the bony lesion present detracts materially from the satisfaction in one's work and conduces sometimes to poor results, on the one hand, or to unnecessary confinement of the patient, on the other. So important is this that when the surgeon is not able to satisfy himself as to the full character of the injury by means of the ordinary methods of examination, the two artificial diagnostic aids should be called on, and either general anesthesia or the x-ray employed.Still, the old and simple methods of diagnosis are of the greatest value. In many of our hospitals young men are subjecting all their fractures to the x-ray for diagnosis.
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.25420370015002d
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.25420370015002d
ER  -