[Surgical treatment of recurrent anterior shoulder dislocation using the Bazy-Savić method. 40 years' experience]

The fourty-year experience in the treatment of 328 patients with recurrent anterior shoulder dislocations using the Bazy-Savić method has been presented. Reintervention due to recurrent dislocation was performed in 12 (3.6%) patients. During a ten-year period questionnaires were sent to 105 operated patients and 76 patients replied. Satisfactory results were achieved in 69 (90.7%) patients.