[Contribution to the Solution of Patello - femoral Complaints in Children and Adolescents.].

The authors give an account of their experience with surgery of relapsing dislocations of the patella in children and adolescents. They evaluate a group of 82 patients (89 knee joints) who were attended and treated at the Orthopaedic Clinic of the Faculty Hospital in Hradec Králové between January 1990 and August 1997. In all patients arthroscopy was made which rendered the diagnosis more accurate and made it possible to select the optimal therapeutic procedure.

[The brachial flap in reconstructive surgery].

Radical treatment of tumours in the region of the shoulder joint is a problem. For reconstruction we can use local shifts, microsurgical methods and free skin transplants, unless the surgical operation involves resection of the skeleton. Less frequently a brachial flap is used, calling for amputation of the upper extremity to use the soft tissues of the arm.