Infections of the Hand: A Guide to the Surgical Treatment of Acute and Chronic Suppurative Processes in the Fingers, Hand and Forearm

xiv, 495 pp. Illustrated with 196 engravings. A guide to identify and tell how to fix hand, fingers, and forearm infections including noticeable pressure in the hand. CONTENTS: Introduction: Scope and Classification of Types of Infections; Simple Localized Infections and Allied Minor Clinical Entities - Infections of the Distal Phalanges; Carbuncular Infections; Miscellaneous Abscesses; Grave Infections: Tenosynovitis, Fascial-Space Abscesses, Lymphangitis and Allied Conditions - Diagnosis in General; General Principles of Treatment; The Anatomy of the Hand and Forearm, with Especial Consideration of Its Relation to Infections of the Synovial Sheaths and Fascial Spaces - Methods of Study in General: A Study of Serial Cross-Sections of the Hand, with Particular Relation to the Fascial Spaces; The Tendon Sheaths: A Discussion of Their Anatomical Distribution and Relations, with Surgical Deductions; The Relation Between the Synovial Sheaths and the Fascial Spaces--A Study by Experimental Injection of the Outlines, Boundaries and Diverticula of the Fascial Spaces and the Relation of These to the Synovial Sheaths; Anatomy of the Forearm in Relation to Infections; The Surgical Consideration of Tendon-Sheath Infections and Fascial-Space Abscesses of Hand and Forearm - Pathogenesis--Source of Involement of the Tendon Sheaths and Fascial Spaces; The Spread of Infection From Any Given Primary Focus; The Pathology of Tendon Sheath and Fascial-Space Abscensses; The Symptoms, Signs and DIagnosis of Tenosynovitis and Fascial-Space Abscesses; The Treatment of Acute Suppuratie Tenosynovitis--Discussion of Technic; The Treatment of Fascial-Space Abscess; Resume of Acute Suppurative Tenosynovitis and Fascial-Space Abscesses--Prognosis; Lymphatic Infections - The Relation of Lymphangitis to Other Types of Infection--Discussion of the Anatomy; Lymphangitis--Etiology, Pathogenesis and Pathology; Symptoms and Signs of Lymphangitis with Discussion of Systemic Involvement and Allied Complications; Prognosis in Lymphatic Infections - The Treatment of Lymphatic Infections--General Discussion; The Treatment of the Complications of Lymphangitis; Hand Infects among Employes; Allied Infections - Erysipelas, Erysipeloid, Gas-Bacillus Infection, Anthrax; Complications and Sequelae of Infections of the Hand; Forearm Involvement from Infections of the Hand--Pathology and Diagnosis; Treatment of Involvement of the Forearm Secondary to Hand Infections; Sequelae of Infections of the Hand; After-Treatment in Infections of the Hand.