To the casuistry of paralysis of the upper limb, resulting from the imposition of a tourniquet according to Esmarch

Case 1st. K-ko, N. Ya., 32 years old, 14 / XI 1936, was admitted to the surgical department of the 6th owl. hospitals for exacerbated chronic osteomyelitis of the right humerus, accompanied by slight fever. He suffered from malaria and kidney inflammation in childhood. In 1923 he fell ill with acute osteomyelitis of the right humerus; since 1933 periodic exacerbations. Status praesens: patient of correct constitution, moderate walking. Heart and lungs are normal. No changes were noted in the abdominal organs. On the skin of the upper third of the right shoulder from the antero-inner side, there are two scars welded to the underlying tissues. The muscles of the right shoulder are atrophic. In the lower third of the right humerus, a diffuse thickening is determined, painful to palpation, expanding to the distal pineal gland. Radiographically determined foci of rarefaction of bone substance in the lower part of the diaphysis and its thickening due to periosteal layers.