[Surgery in Diagnosis and therapy of infant rheumatoid arthritis (author's transl)]

In our hospital, diagnostic surgery is applied in as follows: confirmatory incisions of joints, excision of rheumatic nodulis, tissue excision of skin and muscles (dermatomyositis?), excision of mucosa of the rectum (amyloid?) and open biopsy of the kidney (amyloid?). Therapeutic measures are: total synovectomy of the knee joints or other joints, teno-synovectomy at the hands; treatment of contractions of the hip by myotenotomies and of the knee-joint by elongation of tendons and treatment of knock-knee by incision of the tractus ilio-tibialis and elongation of the tendon of the bicipital muscle.