Open dislocation of the elbow with rupture of the brachial artery.

A search of the literature has revealed only one report in Britain of posterior dislocation Of the elbow complicated by rupture of the brachial artery. This was a closed injury (Marnham 1934). In America, Cotton (1924) described the complication of arterial rupture as “ excessively rare and compound mainly. “ Eliason and Brown (1937) collected twenty-one case records of posterior dislocation of the elbow with arterial damage. Sixteen of these were open injuries and in fifteen the brachial artery was found divided. In the remainder, the