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The knee-joint anchylosed at a right angle – restored nearly to a straight position after the excision of a wedge-shaped portion of bone, consisting of the patella, condyles and articular surface of the tibia.
Publication Details
Amer. J. med. Sci., n.s. 10, 277-84. 1845 CE.
Buck’s operation, “one of the more spectacular surgical feats by an American surgeon in the first half of the nineteenth century” (Rutkow). The paper is reprinted in Med. Classics, 1939, 3, 791-99.
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| Entry Number | #4324 |
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| Author Bio Link | Wikipedia ↗ |
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