black and white photograph of ankle injury

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black and white photograph of ankle injury

Fig 22 Repair of sever soft-tissue injury right ankle and heel with adherent scar over os calcis. This foot was extremely painful for weight bearing. It was treated by means of an abdominal tubed pedicle flap transferred by means of the wrist. The diagram shows technique of formation of abdominal flap, including skin grafting of raw area

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Title: War Surgery and Medicine

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Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1954, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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