[Subtotal avulsion of the lower limb after traumatic section in a 2 and a half-year-old child].

Reimplantation after subtotal section of the right lower limb under the Scarpa triangle was been attempted and was successful. Section and contusion of the femoral artery and vein required 2 end-to-end saphenous bypass grafts. The use of the lower limb is correct, after to a follow up of 4 years.

[Long-term results of the Harrington operation. Apropos of a series of 200 cases (1964-1986)].

The authors present a series of 200 patients who underwent vertebral arthrodesis with Harrington's distraction rods for idiopathic scoliosis reviewed after a mean follow-up of 7.5 years (maximum: 24 years). The surgical procedure consisted of either simple distraction or distraction associated with convex compression or a transverse traction device or insertion of double rods according to Armstrong's technique.

[Subtotal traumatic amputation of the limb in young children. Analysis of 2 successful repairs].

Two replantations of nearly completely amputated limbs are presented. In both cases there were young children. These two success explain the necessity of limb preservation if the nerve integrity is respected.

[Subacute or initially chronic osteomyelitis in children. A series of 17 cases].

17 cases of subacute or at once chronic osteomyelitis are shown. At this occasion, an analysis of epidemiological, topographical, clinical and bacteriological data is given. An immunological study has been made in 5 cases: diagnosis is difficult at all stages.

[Multiple wounds in children. Apropos of 76 cases].

Polytraumatisms in the child are relatively unfrequent, less severe, and get a lower rate of deaths compared with polytraumatisms in the adult. The indirect traumatism, being most frequent, is explained by projection and ejection. Direct traumatism is scacre.

[Sports injuries in children. Epidemiologic study].

Among 49 000 cases of infantile emergencies which were received in the BUCI (Bloc d'urgence chirurgical infantile: surgical infantile emergency unit), 5 546 were sport traumas. At an early age, they were caused by outdoor plays; during adolescence, the main cases were caused by team sports. Males are predominant.

[Odontoid bone. Apropos of a case].

Reporting a clinical observation, the authors emphasize upon the extreme scarceness of this variety of so called "congenital" pseudarthrosis of the odontoid process. The congenital origin, due to a lack of fusion, or the acquired one by avascular necrosis following a trauma is explained. The diagnosis may be clinical, consisting either on a vertebral syndrome occurring in childhood, or on a neurological syndrome in the adult age.

[Importance of synoviorthesis using osmic acid in the treatment of hemophilic arthropathy. Apropos of 19 cases].

While getting synovial sclerosis and articular drying, the synoviorthesis breaks the circulus vicious which comes from iterative hemarthrosis to articular destruction. With 25 cases and a follow up of 6 years, we have got 39% of good results, 35% of medium and 26% of bad ones. The therapeutic efficiency requires a certain latent time (0 to 15 days for isotopical synoviorthesis, 2 to 3 months for those ones with osmical acid.

[Traumatic children's emergencies. An analytical and statistical study spreading over 6 years (author's transl)].

A study has been made of over 3800 children to determine the preventive measures and the possible prophylaxy of accidents by children. The traumatological emergencies are concerned. The study shows, by means of histograms, an increase of their frequency not withstanding the security measures which have been taken.

[Personal experience of Cotrel's method in the surgical treatment of scoliosis and kyphosis (author's transl)].

This current report of our experience of Cotrel's method falls within the context of continuing the developments in our treatment of scoliosis. Our follow-up for Harrington's operation is 13 years, 281 patients having undergone surgery. On other words, having known the beginnings of this surgery, we are in a position to measure the progress represented by Berckoise's technique (7, 6, 8).

[Surgical treatment of funnel chest].

The main problems of indication, operating techniques and results are recalled after 39 cases of pectus excavatum (P.E.) operated on 74 followed up children.