[Anatomo-pathologic and therapeutic considerations on the Papineau method].

The authors study the treatment of bone infections through Papineau's technique, and emphasize the element they consider essential in the process restoring the loss of substance: the "bouton" according to the French School. On the basis of the experience deriving from the treatment of 22 patients, they subsequently point out the importance of local antibiotic therapy and, on the contrary, the inefficacy of the administration of antibiotics by general way, at least as far as the not strictly surgical period is concerned.