[Use of a rod apparatus for external fixation in the treatment of hand injuries].

The authors describe an external fixation rod apparatus and the results of its application in 28 patients with various injuries. The apparatus was used in the patients with fractures of phalanges of the fingers and metacarpal bones for extra-articular fixation after the elimination of contractures and dislocations in the joints, in cases of combined epidermatoplasty, arthrodesis, etc. The method of treatment had to be changed only in 2 patients.

[Substantiation of the surgical approaches in Dupuytren's contracture and the technic of the operations].

The work substantiates the operative access in aponeurectomy for the Dupuytren's contracture realized by a wave-shaped incision in the zone of pathologically changed aponeurosis depending on the individual disposition of nodulous indurations and on a certain height of skin grafts in relation to the base. The operation technique is also described with special reference to possible errors resulting in serious sequelae. The complications observed are also described.