The Treatment of Paralytic Deformities

Correction of paralytic hand deformities

The ulnar nerve is most commonly involved in leprosy and is affected at or just above the elbow. The outcome of this damage is paralysis of the intrinsic muscles of the hand with the exception of the thenar group, together with paresis of ring and little finger flexor digitorum profundus (FDP). Although the obvious deformity is clawing of the fingers, other deformities are produced: 1. Hollowin...

Paralytic Deformities of the Lower Extremities

Treatment of Paralytic Ileus

junction or parasympathetic nerves and help the peristalsis to return. Those who support Robb's (1932) views of paralytic ileus have advocated spinal ansesthesia or splanchnic amesthesia if possible. The other group of surgeons does not rely on this conservative line of treatment and has advocated operative drainage of the distended gut, viz enterostomy. In their opinion the distension of the g...

The treatment of paralytic convex pes valgus.

Descriptions in the literature of the treatment of congenital convex pes valgus have been mainly concerned with patients who have not shown any overt paralytic lesion (Lloyd-Roberts and Spence 1958, Herndon and Heyman 1963, Eyre-Brook 1967, Harrold 1967). Convex pes valgus, or vertical talus deformity of the foot, quite often occurs in association with malformation of the central nervous system...

The treatment of some skeletal deformities.

IN infants and children there are some rather rare skeletal deformities which are not usually treated by pediatric surgeons and therefore often not treated early enough. As pediatric surgeons have the best opportunities to undertake the care of crippled infants, all diseases and malformations requiring surgical treatment in early infancy should be included within the scope of pediatric surgery....