Clavicular fractures (group of patients treated in the Traumatological Research Institute in 1986-1989).

The author submits an analysis of a group of casualties with clavicular fractures treated in the Traumatological Research Institute in Brno in 1986. Based on the analysis, recommendations were adopted for the surgical treatment and for increased attention to the termination of conservative treatment. As a control, a group of patients with clavicular fractures treated in 1989 was analyzed. The assembled results are discussed and the conclusion is reached that predominantly conservative treatment of clavicular fractures is still indicated. No other method of immobilization gives better results than mere suspension of the extremity. In a certain percentage of injured patients subjective complaints typical for the healing of the fracture persist. The period of work incapacity must be assessed individually.