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Ortopedisk-traumatologisk avdeling, Haukeland sykehus, Bergen.
We present experience from 37 arthroscopies of the elbow. 15 surgical procedures were performed, nine of which were extractions of free bodies. One deep infection occurred (in the first patient, on whom arthrotomy was performed as well), but no neurovascular complications occurred. Three preoperative diagnoses were changed, and a diagnosis could be made in 14 cases of unknown etiology. Exploratory arthrotomy was avoided in 13 patients. In our view the method is indicated in cases of pain of unknown cause, free intraarticular bodies and/or osteochondritis, and locking episodes where no reason could be established preoperatively. Morbidity is minimal and visualization is better than in open surgery.
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