[Social and professional effects of hip prosthetic replacment on people under 50 years of age].

Unlabelled: Although total hip prosthetic replacement is a common surgical procedure, it is not without social and professional consequences. In a certain number of cases, return to occupational activities is not possible. In others, it is difficult.

[Unicompartmental knee prosthesis - Rehabilitation program].

This work reports postoperative and rehabilitation care provided by 11 teams-the same who attended the round table conference on "Unicompartmental knee prostheses"-. Drug prescription: An anticoagulant is prescribed for 10 days to 3 weeks. A preoperative perfusion of heparin is performed in the operated limb by one team -provided there is a pneumatic tourniquet (the rate of postoperative phlebitis has gone down from 50 to 6%).

[Inter-rater agreement of a functional analytical measure of the upper limb].

The determination and the follow-up of a patient having an upper limb lesion need a functional assessment instrument. This study examined the inter-rater agreements of the "400 points Measure", between two occupational therapists and a physiotherapist. One occupational therapist only had already used this instrument.

[Cross replantation in a case of bilateral amputation of the legs].

A case is reported of a patient aged 32 years who suffered bilateral traumatic amputation of the legs by a wagon. Neither of his two feet could be re-implanted to its original site. In spite of the severity of the lesions, reconstructive surgery was attempted by crossed re-implantation of the right foot onto the stump of the left leg.