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Identifier: xraymanualusarmy00unit (find matches)
Title: X-ray manual : U.S. Army
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: United States. Surgeon-General's Office American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: X-rays Fractures Teeth Chest Heart Radiography
Publisher: New York : Middleditch
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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cannot be rendered accessibleand for which data for the extraction of projectiles can-not be obtained. Guiding Instruments. Not infrequently the surgeon feels the need of sometangible guide as an added assurance that the chart isbeing accurately used. Such is the compass of Debiernie16the use of which is easily understood from (Figs.28 and 29). The bar is an arc and the pointer may beshifted at will without resetting the compass. A much simpler device for the same purpose is de-scribed by Flint as follows: To provide an operative guide for abdominal andchest cases or those with projectiles in the neck, wherethe Sutton localizer would be dangerous, a band guidewas devised and used. This is made as follows: A smallband of aluminum is bent double. It is then placed onthe tracing (Fig. 30) with the bend at the position of theprojectile extending in a straight line through the se-lected incision. At the skin level, the two arms are bentto conform to the skin contour. In this way, after the
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Fig. 29. Application of Debfernies compass

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