[Osseous lesions in the elbow region in adolescents and adults (author's transl)].

Analysis of roentgenographs of injured elbows must go beyond the identification or exclusion of a line indicating a fracture, especially in children and adolescents. Decisive diagnostic pointers can be supplied by the displacement of fatty bodies, which is a very sensitive indicator of an intra-articular growth, as our postmortem examinations have shown. A systematic search for disturbances of relative positionings (which are defined e.g. by the radius-capitulum axis or the ventral longitudinal humerus axis) and consideration of the sequence in time of the appearance of ossification centres in elbows of children, will prevent gross mistakes in the assessment of the pathological situation.