Open AccessEndoprosthetics for diseases of the shoulder girdle and hand
Author(s) -
R. A. Zulkarneev,
R. R. Zulkarneev
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
kazanskij medicinskij žurnal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-9359
pISSN - 0368-4814
DOI - 10.17816/kazmj90963
Subject(s) - shoulder girdle , medicine , upper limb , humerus , amputation , lower limb , prosthesis , anatomy , surgery
Pathological processes of tumor, inflammatory, degenerative-dystrophic and other genesis, localized in the upper limb, in contrast to those in the lower limb, are extremely difficult to any therapeutic correction. With ineffective preserved treatment of the lower limb, the solution is quite simple: amputation and prosthetics, which are currently quite developed. However, prosthetics for diseases of the shoulder girdle and upper limb has its own characteristics. The foundations of safe interventions in the upper limb were laid by Pean in 1883 - with destructive tuberculosis of the humerus head, he used a prosthesis of his own design.