[An unknown after surgical lengthening of the femur in children: spontaneous postoperative parasitic lengthening].

The authors have studied overgrowth or diminished growth seen in 54 femora lengthened surgically by a one-stage procedure between 1963 and 1979. Thirty six cases were of poliomyelitis. An overgrowth was regularly seen of the order of 2.

Treatment of lumbar disc herniation by chymopapain chemonucleolysis. A report on 120 patients.

Ninety of 120 patients with herniated lumbar discs who received an intradiscal injection of chymopapain achieved successful recovery. Sixteen of the 21 patients who underwent subsequent surgery had a good result. Study of the unsuccessful cases showed that disc sequestration and lateral stenosis were the major organic causes of failure.

[Treatment of disk sciatica by chemonucleolysis. 120 cases].

One hundred and twenty patients suffering some sciatica due to disc herniation have been treated by chemonucleolysis. All the patients had received conservative treatment for at least four months. The minimum followup after nucleolysis was six months.