Showing papers in "Journal of the Korean Society of Fractures in 1991"

Neural injuries associated with supracondylar fractures of the humerus in children

Abstract: The cases of forty patients who were operated on consecutively for palsy of the posterior interosseous nerve were analyzed. The injury was iatrogenic in sixteen patients, traumatic in fifteen, and nontraumatic in nine. Persistent paralysis (partial or cornplete) was the only indication for operation. Operative neurolysis was done in twenty-three patients; interfascicular nerve-grafting, in twelve; internal neurolysis, in one; and tendon transfer, in four. An excellent or good functional result was documented for all but three patients, of whom two had had neurolysis and one, nerve-