Volume 1

Surgical diseases of the kidney and ureter including injuries, malformations and misplacements.

  • Morris, Henry, 1844-
Date:
[pref. 1901]
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Credit: Surgical diseases of the kidney and ureter including injuries, malformations and misplacements. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9 SURGERY OF THE KIDNEY AND URETER. well as backwards. Its upper two-thirds or thereabouts are under cover of the eleventh and twelfth ribs, but its lower one-third descends Fig. 1.—The Lumto-costal or Vertebro-costal Ligament, attached to the transverse processes of the first and second lumbar vertebrae, and to the twclftli rib, which is long. {After FarabcuJ and Ttecamier.) below them. Occasionally the twelfth rib is too short to extend across this surface of the kidney. Henle and E^camier describe a fibrous ligament (vertebro-costal), which reaches from the tips of the trans\-erse processes of the first and second lumbar vertebroe upwards and outwards, to be attached to the twelfth rib, or to the eleventh rib