[Clinico-experimental study of different types of allotenoplasty]

The results of an experimental study carried out on 140 rabbits with the aim to investigate auto- and allotendinoplasty are briefly described. General clinical, morphological, lymphographic and histochemical data allowed a conclusion as to the presence of a decreased lymphoido-plasmocytic reaction as the process of replacement of conserved allogenic grafts by connective tissue proceeded. Clinical utilization of conserved tendinous allografts in 32 patients in restoration of 41 injured digital tendons revealed positive aspects of this kind of tendinoplasty.