[Injury of the semilunar cartilages of the knee-joint in childhood (author's transl)].

In the paper, 30 patients at the age of 5 till 14 with injuries of the semilunar cartilages of the knee-joint, are presented. All the children were subjected to surgery, and 20 of them underwent same examinations performed in a delay of 1 to 12 years after they had been operated. Both etiology and the injury mechanism subjects are hadled together with the clinical pictures, specific to the age of the young patients. Basing of the clinical and X-ray examinations, the state of the morphological and functional condition of the knee of a child after semilunar cartilage had been removed, was considered and estimated.