1989 Volume 37 Issue 4 Pages 1452-1455
Twenty-five dislocations of the elbow associated with or without fracture that occurred at our hospital from 1975 through 1986 were studied. Of these patients, twenty-two were followed-up clinically for an average of 6.2 years. The patients could be classified into three groups, which were Type A (there are no concomitant fractures except for small periarticular avulsions), Type B (there are fractures of medial epicondyle or lateral condyle of the humerus) and Type C (there are fractures of radial head or olecranon). There were 14 Type A, 5 Type B and 3 Type C dislocations. Twenty were treated by closed reduction and two by open reduction. Results in Type A were excellent in 8 and good in 6, in Type B were excellent in 2, good in 2 and fair in one, and in Type C were good in one and poor in 2. At follow-up none had complaints by instability or osteoarthritis of the elbow, except for two patients of Type C associated with comminuted articular fractures.
