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Title: The diagnosis and treatment of diseases of women
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Crossen, Harry Sturgeon, 1869-
Subjects: Genital Diseases, Female Gynecology Gynecology Women Generative organs, Female
Publisher: St. Louis : Mosby
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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Fig. 515. Taits Operation. Tue Line of Incision forOrdinary Laceration of tlie pelvic floor. (Thomas and Munde—Diseases of Women.) An incision is made along the lower margin of the area to be denuded, as shownin Fig. 515, and the mucous membrane is raised as a flap, as shown in Fig. 518. The area of denudation is nearly the same as in Hegars operation but it has overit a large flap. This flap is both an advantage and a disadvantage. 33 500 LACERATIONS AND FISTULA One advantage is that it acts as a roof to protect tlie repaired area from thesecretions from above which, in the otlier forms of operation, sometimes infect thewound and cause partial or complete failure. Furthermore, the flap-method gives alarge raw surface for approximation without any loss of tissue, and the amount oftissue left in the flap adds somewhat to the mass which fills the weak place in thepelvic floor. A distinct disadvantage of the flap is that it may prevent free access to the upper
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.^1 Fig. 516. Tails Operation. The Line of Incision forLaceration into tlie Rectum. Tlie short incision extendingdownward from each corner of the regular incision is for tlie pur-pose of exposing the torn and retracted ends of the sphincter animuscle. (Thomas and Munde—Diseases of Women.) parts of the wounds. When the laceration extends very high, the deeper partscan not be so easily denuded nor sutured to the best advantage. This operation is especially applicable in those cases where it is important toavoid loss of tissue, particularly in cases of laceration into the rectum that haveresisted one or two previous operations. In some such cases, there is so much scar-tissue and apparently so much loss of tissue that approximation over a wide areaby ordinary denudation can not be secured without injurious tension. In such a STEPS IN TAITS OPERATION 501 case the main object is to secure union of the sphincter muscle and the rectal wall,and this is more certain of attainment by the Tait

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