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The joints of the lower extremity are especially apt to suffer; the child is seriously ill, is delirious at night, develops bed-sores over the sacrum and, it may happen that, not being expected to recover, the legs are allowed to assume contracture deformities with ankylosis or dislocation at the hip and flexion ankylosis at the knees; should the child survive, the degree of crippling may be pitiable in the extreme; prolonged orthopædic treatment and a series of operations arthroplasty, osteotomies, and resections may be required to restore even a limited capacity of locomotion.
FAT EMBOLISM. After various injuries and operations, but especially such as implicate the marrow of long bones for example, comminuted fractures, osteotomies, resections of joints, or the forcible correction of deformities fluid fat may enter the circulation in variable quantity.
#Pyogenic Osteomyelitis due to Spread of Infection from the Soft Parts.# There still remain those forms of osteomyelitis which result from infection through a wound involving the bone for example, compound fractures, gun-shot injuries, osteotomies, amputations, resections, or operations for un-united fracture.
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