The Right Lower Limb, Internal Lateral View (Surface Incisions).
1, 2. Circular for middle and upper thirds of thigh.
3. Circular for lower third of thigh, showing tendency of circle to incline downward on adductor side to compensate for greater retraction.
4. Incision for Gritti’s or Carden’s amputations at knee (single anterior flap).
5, 6. Stephen Smith’s bilateral flaps (posterior racquet).
7. Antero-posterior flaps, cut solid to the bone, the soft parts being elevated from the periosteum (Marc See, von Brun’s method). This is the author’s preferred method for leg only, simplified by making a simple circular with two lateral liberating incisions on fibular and tibial sides.
8, 9, 10. Circular with posterior racquet extension to form bilateral flaps (Stephen Smith).
11. Guyon’s supra-malleolar amputation.
12. Lines of Syme’s amputation.