Five patients with an average age of thirty-five years had satisfactory
restoration of elbow motion by a cutis arthroplasty technique with minimum
medial-lateral instability. In three patients marked stiffness or ankylosis
had followed severe fractures or dislocations. The fourth patient had
rheumatoid arthritis, and the fifth had sustained a birth injury to the
brachial plexus. An average follow-up of three and one-half years confirmed
the durability of the results.