1835CooperAP

 

Fragments of the book Cooper AP. Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery (1835) dedicated to ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF). The author discusses LCF injury during hip dislocation and notes the important role of its blood vessels in supplying the femoral head.

 

Quote p. 577

DISLOCATIONS OF THE HIP JOINT

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It generally happens when the thighs are widely separated from each other, that the ligamentum teres and capsular ligament are torn through, and the head of the bone is situated on the obturator externus muscle at the inner and back part of the thigh.

Quote pp. 584-585

ON DISLOCATIONS OF THE THIGH BONE…

But the third and principal reason is, the almost entire absence of ossific union in the head of the bone when detached from its cervix. The principal supply of blood to the head of the bone being derived from the ligamentum teres, which has only a few minute vessels ramifying from it on the bone, the natural supply of blood for the neck and head of the bone is derived from the periosteum; and when the neck is fractured, and the periosteum torn through the means of ossific action are necessarily cut off, No deposit of cartilage or bone as in other fractures is produced but there is a deposition of ligamentous matter covering the surface of the cancellated structure. 

External links

Cooper AP. Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Surgery. London: Edward Portwine; John Thomas Cox. 1835. [books.google]

Authors & Affiliations 

Astley Paston Cooper (1768-1841) was a British surgeon and anatomist, professor of comparative anatomy to the Royal College of Surgeons. [wikipedia.org] 

Sir Astley Paston Cooper, 1st Baronet (23 August 1768 – 12 February 1841)
 Published in London: George Lawford, 1825;
original in the wikimedia.org collection (CC0 – Public Domain, no changes) 

Keywords

ligamentum capitis femoris, ligamentum teres, ligament of head of femur, vascularization, fracture, dislocation, blood supply

                                                                    

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