Plate osteosynthesis of humeral diaphyseal fractures associated with radial palsy: twenty cases.

Background: Surgical management of humeral fractures associated with radial nerve palsy remains controversial. Some advocate surgical treatment in emergency while others recommend nonoperative treatment.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to assess nerve recovery in a series of patients treated with open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) with plate for humeral fracture associated with radial nerve palsy.

[Lower limb salvage with a free fillet fibula flap harvested from the contralateral amputated leg].

We report a unusual case of "fillet flap" to reconstruct the lower limb with the amputated contralateral leg. This kind of procedure was first described by Foucher et al. in 1980 for traumatic hand surgery as the "bank finger".

[Flexor tendon repair: a short story].

This short story of flexor tendon repair aims to illustrate hesitations and wanderings of this surgery. Obviously tendon repair was very early considered, but it developed and diffused rather lately. It became a routine practice only in 20th century.

[Management of zone 1 flexor digitorum profundus tendon injuries].

Flexor tendons repair in zone 1 is classically considered providing good results with an overall satisfactory finger function. However, the objective functional results after surgical repair of flexor digitorum profundus are sometimes disappointing. The authors describe the different surgical repair techniques available to the operator from so-called "traditional" sutures to newer methods of internal fixation using miniaturized anchor sutures.

[Foreign body reaction in osteoarthritis of the trapeziometacarpal joint treated by trapezectomy and interposition of a L-polylactic acid "anchovy" (Arex®615R). A series of eight cases].

Osteoarthritis of the trapeziometacarpal joint is a common pathology. When the trapezium is not large enough to allow using a total joint arthroplasty or in case of peritrapezial osteoarthrosis, the authors used a trapeziectomy with interposition of an absorbable L-polylactic acid anchovy (Arex(®)615R). This technique is simple and fast.