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Thirty patients with post-traumatic stiffness and ankylosis of the elbow were treated operatively at the Colentina Clinical Hospital, from 1970-1986. They were treated by 39 surgical mobilisation using Ollier technique. In eleven patients with a persisting functional amplitude of the prono-supination, the resections have been effected on the distal end of the humerus and on the olecranon, and in nineteen with a limited prono-supination too, it was added a resection of the radial head. The mobilisations were realised without interposition. At follow-up the patients were evaluated after 1 to 8 years, using the pre- and post- operative Rocher's indices and the Kerboull's classification. The flexion-extension was improved by 55 per cent, the pronation by 55.3 per cent and the supination also with 55.3 per cent. The results plead for the maintaining of this type of surgical treatment for the treatment of post-traumatic stiffnesses and ankyloses of the elbow, though there are not complete satisfactory, especially for the joint stability.

Three cases of recurrent dislocation of the proximal end of the fibula were seen and treated by an original technique combining a fibulo-tibial screw and the creation of a pseudarthrosis at the upper end of the fibula shaft. The results were satisfactory. The authors have made a review of the literature and found seventeen comparable cases, ten in children and seven in adults. The authors describe the complications which may follow a tibio fibular arthrodesis or resection of the proximal end of the fibula.

A rare case of paradoxical extension of the medius finger - the so-called lumbrical plus finger syndrome-is described. At operation was found a fibrous adherence of the third lumbrical at the sheath of the flexor digitorum profundus. Some of pathological mechanisms are discussed. A satisfactory result was obtained after the resection of the tendon of the second lumbrical.