[Treatment of severe recurvation of the knee in poliomyelitis. Role of olecranization of the patella].

The authors have treated two cases of severe genu-recurvatum after poliomyelitis by a locking operation. They fused the patella to the tibia by grafting, realising an anterior shelf-operation. Full flexion was preserved, hyper-extension was decreased. The indications of this operation are discussed and compared with these of tibial osteotomies and capsulorraphies.