Treatment of Elbow Fractures in Children and Adolescents

Abstract

Treatment results of 1353 children and adolescents with acute elbow injuries were performed. The main difficulties for diagnosis and treatment of those injuries were shown. Using stored experience the methods of diagnosis and treatment for all types of injuries were optimized. Potential complications and mistakes were described; the ways of their prevention were presented. Tactics of postoperative management of patients was elaborated. Differentiated approach to the treatment of every type of injuries enabled to obtain good and excellent results in 93.2% of patients.