[The surgical treatment of haemophilic arthropathy (author's transl)].

The authors have operated on 13 haemophilic joints. The operation included 5 knee synovectomies of the knee, 2 corrective osteotomies, 4 soft tissue procedures on the knee or foot (tendon lengthening, capsulotomy), 1 arthrodesis of knee and 1 excision of heterotopic ossification. The type of operation needed varied with the degree of involvement.

[Possibilities of surgical treatment in hemophiliac arthropathy].

The possibilities are discussed of the surgical treatment in haemophiliac arthropathies. The cases that have been treated totalled 11 patients with type A haemophilia and one patient with type B haemophilia. The treatment was aimed either at an arrest of deterioration in the involved joint (in the early, I and II stages), or at correcting the vicious positions that had developed in the late stages (III and IV).