[Comparison of Blount's sling and Kirschner wire fixation in the treatment of a dislocated supracondylar humeral fracture in childhood].

From 1979 to 1982 we were treating 63 cases of displaced supracondylar fractures of the humerus. Patients underwent either closed reduction and fixation by collar and cuff immobilization (32 cases), or fixation by means of Kirschner wires following closed or (more often) open reduction (31 cases). Follow-up controls after an average time of three years clearly showed the more favourable results of the conservative method.