[Results of Papineua's operation. Apropos of 46 cases].

The authors analyse about one and a half years later, the results of 46 Papineau operations divided in three groups depending of the initial excision. The complete healing was obtained for 44 patients and by the sole Papineau operation in 70 p. 100 of the cases, with relatively short delays: 6 months without a solution of bone continuity, 9 months with a small solution of bone continuity, 11 months in the case of major solution of bone continuity. They insist on the absence of amputation, the small number of complications and in particular of interative fractures in this series.