[Latarjet procedure for the treatment of inveterated shoulder dislocations].

Purpose Of The Study: Transfer of the tip of the coracoid process to the anterior margin of the glenoid is a procedure indicated in shoulder instability due to bone lesion. However, it is also used in inveterated shoulder dislocations refractory to conservative treatment that require open reduction of the joint. The bone block thus created allows for more effective and safer rehabilitation than does a temporary rigid Ki-wire fixation of the humeral head.

[Arthroscopic stabilization procedure for multidirectional shoulder instability].

Purpose Of The Study: The authors describe an arthroscopic procedure for multidirectional shoulder instability and its results in a group of their patients. They present a new argument to the widely accepted view that multidirectional instability of the shoulder is not an indication to surgical treatment.

Material: A total of nine shoulders in seven patients were indicated to surgical intervention because of multidirectional shoulder instability.

[Treatment of chondral and osteochondral defects of the knee].

Chondral and osteochondral defects play an important role in the knee surgery. The knee traumas are often followed by preterm development of osteoarthritis due to limited reparative processes in the cartilage. Today's diagnostic possibilities and progress in arthroscopic techniques promote the early diagnostic and exact classification of osteochondral defects.

[Mosaicplasty in treatment of deep chondral knee defects - first experience.].

The mosaicplasty as a method for solving the deep chondral defects is a one-stage technology with autogenous osteochondral graft application. The small cylinder's forming graft are obtained from a nonweightbearing site of knee cartilage and graft is further applied by press-fit technique to former prepared cartilage defects on the weightbearing site. Authors analyse the indications of this method and mention the possible risk and technical troubles during the treatment of the first group of patients.