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Fragments from the book Palfijn J. Anatomie du corps humain (1726). The author writes about the attachment and role of the ligamentum capitis femoris (LCF), and also reports its damage in hip dislocation. Also mentioned is a synonym (ligament plat) that arose as a result of the discussion between Nicolas Andry de Bois-Regard and Jean-Louis Petit (1725AndryN). The text is prepared for machine translation using a service built into the blog from Google or your web browser. In some cases, we have added links to quotations about LCF available on our resource, as well as to publications posted on the Internet.

Quote p. 244

CAPITRE XVII

A l'extrémité de la tête du femur il y a une échancrure inégale qui reçoit un ligament plat qui attache l'os de la cuisse à une inégalité au fond de la cavité vers sa partie anterieure. Dans les dislocations de l'os de la cuisse ce ligament se rompt assez souvent ou se relâche considérablement; d'où il arrive que la tête de l'os ne reste pas dans sa cavité, quoique la réduction soit bien faite.

Tout autour de la partie inferieure de la grosse tête du femur il y a un cercle inégal, à la circonférence duquel s'attache un autre ligament, qui s'attache aussi d'ailleurs à la circonférence du bord exterieur de la cavité cotyloïde de l'os innominé, lequel entoure toute l'articulation.

Quote p. 276-277.

CAPITRE VI

Nous avons dit au Chap. 17. du Traite précedent que l'os de la cuisse et moins sujet à se luxer que les autres os, à cause de son articulation par énartrose, & de la quantité & grosseur des muscles qui servent à ses mouvemens, joint à ses forts engagemens dans la cavité cotiloide par le moyen du ligament plat qui retient sa tête au fond de cette cavité, & des forts liens qui entourent l'articulation: mais si ces muscles & ces ligamens sont d'un grand secours pour affermir la tête du femur dans sa boëse: ils forment aussi un grand obstacle à sa reduction quand il est luxé ou fracturé, parce que le retirant vers leurs attaches, il faut de grands efforts pour le ramener dans la cavité quand il en est forti, ou pour le réduire dans sa naturelle situation quand il est fracturé.




External links

Palfijn J. Anatomie du corps humain: avec des remarques utiles aux chirurgiens dans la pratique de leurs opérations. … Premiere partie. Paris: Chez Guillaume Cavelier, 1726. [books.google]

Authors & Affiliations

Jan Palfijn (Jean Palfyn or Jan Palfyn, 1650- 1730) was a Flemish surgeon and obstetrician. [wikipedia.org]

Jan Palfijn (1758) 
Author Francesco Cattini
, original in the wikimedia.org collection
(CC0 – Public Domain, no changes)

Keywords

ligamentum capitis femoris, ligamentum teres, ligament of head of femur, anatomy, attachment, role, dislocation

                                                                    

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