[Conservative treatment of femoral fractures in children in data from the Orthopedic Clinic of the 2nd Medical Faculty of Charles University].

Purpose Of The Study: Conservative therapy is the method of choice for treating femoral fractures in younger children all over the world. At the Department of Orthopedic Surgery of the Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague, this approach has had a long tradition and has only partly been replaced by other, more recent methods. It is not always necessary to abandon well-established and reliable techniques because of new achievements and this is demonstrated by the results of our study.

[Os scaphoideum--functional and clinical anatomy].

1. Scaphoid bone is the largest and clinically most significant bone in the proximal row of the carpal bones. It consists of three sections: proximal and distal pole and scaphoid waist.

[Partial arrest of growth after intra partum physeal injury.].

Treatment of the sequelae of the osseous connection between the metaphysis after damage of a part of the growth plate (bone bridge, partial arrest of growth) is still difficult. In addition to many symptomatic operations (repeated osteotomies, prolongation of the bones, epiphyseal distraction, epiphyseodesis etc.) also causal provisions can be made.

[Surgical treatment of patients with juvenile cerebral palsy at the orthopedic clinic of the Charles University Medical School in Prague-Motol].

In the period of 1976-1987 there were in total 181 patients operated on with the diagnosis of infantile cerebral palsy at the Orthopaedic Clinic of the Faculty of Pediatrics of Charles University in Prague-Motol. 412 operations were performed in total in these patients. The indication was mainly the improvement of the statics and gait, therefore operations on lower extremities prevailed.