SURGICAL TRIUMPH.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 914, 6 September 1910, Page 4

SURGICAL TRIUMPH.

'CLEVER : REMODELLING' '.OF-' A' '■■ 1 j:.;, -woman's ; - :: /;;:, - A woman: has . just left the-. London Hospital with a new hose, made from/a ilap'.df skin' taken.. Irani her,6wn ; "forer. head. ■','■.'. ■■•: '■• .-■' .■•'''■'■■• ■;.'--:::; : Tho operation was'rendered.'necessary on account ,of av rodent ulcer -of ■'".; many 'years': growth, .which had. gradually, eaten away all the tissues.of the/nose.; '.- ■.''.'' The operation, known as the ■ Indian" method, - was "devised .' ; . by ".".Lieutenant ■ Colonel Keegan.some years: ago,; bnt, has only been, performed successlulljv.in 'England twor.or-three,times.. ■ - A racqiiot-shaped llap of skin .about two inches in length and an inch and a quarter wide was cut extending upwards irdm the bridge of the nose, the begin-: niug of the'■•"handle-'-'.of the racqiiet., be-: ing the only point of attachment.. Tho whole thickness of the skin was.-thon carefully detached from the.' underlying bone and, being swung round ".un. its attachment '■■ at the'■. base of : . the - nose,. was inade to cover the previ6tisly.de-' nuded nose area.. The nose .'was.. stitched into place' at the sides, openings"' being left for the ..'nostrils;;'. The' denuded ■ space on the forehead was.-.then covered ; ; in with skin grafts. : :':v. ■ The patient, a, woman.:of. fifty,':"wh<.. was onlv three weeks' in ' the ■- hospital,.: left well pleased with her ■artificial,.fea-, .turo, ; ■ ■ ', ' ' ---''"v^V-':,^" ; v : "'-: : ''; v :K :