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Trendelenburg endeavored to improve on this method by adding transfixion with a single strong mattress-needle which was passed in front of the neck of the femur and beneath the great vessels.
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914
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