Cutis arthroplasty of the elbow joint.
Five patients with an average age of thirty-five years had satisfactory restoration of elbow motion by a cutis arthroplasty technique with minimum medial-lateral instability. In three patients marked stiffness or ankylosis had followed severe fractures or dislocations. The fourth patient had rheumatoid arthritis, and the fifth had sustained a birth injury to the brachial plexus. An average follow-up of three and one-half years confirmed the durability of the results.
D000328:Adult; D001178:Arthroplasty / Q000379:methods; D004551:Elbow Joint / Q000502:physiology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006811:Humerus / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D009068:Movement; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous