ABSTRACT
Surgery of the upper limb has increasingly gained interest over the past 20 years. This is due to the major development of the surgery of the hand, which is equally performed by orthopaedic and plastic surgeons. Moreover many recent advances have been made in the field of surgery of the shoul-
der and elbow, chiefly in relation to the possibilities offered by arthroscopy and prosthetic replacements. Thus, we have given some examples of surgery of the upper limb in a separate section instead of including them in the chapter on surgery of the hand and wrist.
