[Several aspects of the surgical treatment of post-traumatic contractures and ankylosis of the elbow joint]. / Nekotorye aspekty operativnogo lecheniia posttravmaticheskikh kontraktur i ankilozov loktevogo sustava.

The authors have studied the results of treatment of 52 patients with inveterate damages of the elbow joint and different function disturbances as well as looked for the best variants of the operative treatment of contractures and ankylosis. They have analysed the results of treatment of 39 patients with inveterate and incorrectly consolidated elbow joint fractures and dislocation fractures in the period of 6 months--4 years after the operation. Excellent results were noted in 9 patients, good in 13, satisfactory in 10 and unsatisfactory in 7 of them. Arthrolysis of the elbow joint in case of its inveterate damages is the method of choice. Arthroplasty is indicated in cast of fibro-osseous ankylosis, incorrectly consolidated fractures with the joint injury congruence disturbance, rheumatoid polyarthritis. The problem of control of cicatricial and commissural processes and development of heterotypic ossification is a very urgent one and requires special studying and working out of the control methods of these processes.