DESTRUCTION OF EPIPHYSES BY FREEZING

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Disturbances of epiphyseal growth have been much studied from the clinical and experimental points of view in the past decade. Numerous proved and theoretical causes for osteochondrosis have been recorded. A careful search of the literature discloses only one case of stunted growth of the fingers as a result of freezing, however. Another instance (fig. 1) is reported here. A white girl, aged 8 years, seen in July 1932, complained of swelling of the proximal interphalangeal joints of the second, third, and fourth fingers of the left hand. The patient had frozen all the fingers of the left hand, with the exception of the thumb, in December 1931, with subsequent loss of the fingernails. There was no disability until the swelling appeared in June 1932. The developmental history was otherwise normal. With the exception of chickenpox in 1929 and scarlet fever in May 1932, the past medical history was

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