[Early experience with total shoulder arthroplasty].

The author gives a report on the indication, on the surgical technique and on the results of shoulder arthroplasty, following 30 porous coated, unconstrained, BIO-MODULAR total endoprothesis were implanted. The pain, which was uncurable with any other methods, was relieved by implanting the total shoulder prosthesis. The functional result is determined by the condition of rotator cuff and by the way of reconstruction, rehabilitation and cooperation of the patients.

[Static stabilizers of the shoulder joint].

Anatomic dissection of 220 cadaver shoulders was performed to find out more about the static stabilizers of the shoulder joint. The static stabilizers, i.e.

[Fracture of the process of the scapula].

Authors call attention, describing 3 cases of their own, to the diagnostical difficulties of these rare injuries. They think the axillary Roentgenogram, except the dislocated fractures of the humerus, in all injuries of the shoulder region necessary. In 2 cases operations were performed, 1 patient was treated conservatively.

[Isolated neuropraxy of the musculocutaneous nerve].

Authors describe a case of isolated posttraumatic neuropraxy of the musculocutaneous nerve. With the presentation of this very rare case attention is called, based on literary date, to the fact that the above injury can be mixed with the distal tendon rupture of the biceps.