[Benefit of lselin's technique in the treatment of fractures of the base of the first metacarpal joint [Report of 15 cases]]

Bennett's fractures are always serious injuries to the hand. The authors have reviewed 15 cases treated by Iselin's pinning technique with a mean range follow-up of 06 years. 13 were good or satisfactory results according to Vardon's Seale. The Iselin's technique is recommended as the routine technique for Bennett's fractures

[Chronic anterior dislocation of the knee treated by anterior extra-articular. Lemaire arthroplasty. [Report of 40 cases of average 10.5 years of age [07-15 years old]]

The purpose of this study was to evaluate on Lemaire's extra-articular procedure applied to chronic rupture of the A.C.L. 40 patients, 21 to 42 years old [average 26.8 years], underwent chronic rupture of the A.C.L. Lemaire extra-articular procedure for. The average follow-up was 10.5 years [range 7 to 15]. All patients were evaluated with scoring systems [Avicenne military hospital [HMA] and IKDC]. Roentgenograms of both knees on unilateral weight-bearing and functional evaluation with the Stryker knee laxity tester. No statistical evaluation was used. 30 patients had a satisfactory result in both system HMA and IKDC. The pivot-shift test was negative in 95 percent. 22 patients resumed there first level 35%. Functional results were temporalily but do not confirm the reliability of this procedure. Degenerative changes of the joint underprim the prognosis. Lemaire's extra-articular procedure alone for chronic rupture of the A.C.L. is not recommended

[Paronychia and pyogenic infections of the hand and fingers. [Report of 125 operated cases]]

Pyogenic infection of the hand are common and remean a serious disease when neglected. During the last 15 years, the authers treated 125 cases of such infections. The aim of this retrosoective study is to show the gravity of these infections when they are not teated according to simple rules which nowadays should be very well known

[Imaging of agressive Giant Cell Tumor]

If the radiological diagnosis of the classical forms of Giant Cell Tumors [T.G.C] is generally easiers than that of agressive forms because of their atypic radiological aspects. Moreover, these aggressive TC. G could be transformed to a possible risk of pulmonary metastasis. In favour of personnal cases, the authors study this pathology to expose theire therapeutic and diagnosic difficulties

L'arthroscopie du genou bilan de 80 cas

The author relates his experience about 80 cases of the knee's diagnostic arthroscopy made during a period of 2 years. After a reminder of the technical modalities, he exposes the results precising the correlations between the clinical and the arthroscopy of the different lesions observed