[Amniotic band syndrome. Clinico-therapeutic considerations on 3 cases]

In three patients with "Congenital Annular Constricting Bands Syndrome" the monstrous leg and foot lymphedemas were aesthetically and functionally cured using the two-stage Ombredanne's crown-like operation. Plaster splints were useful in curing and consolidating the tibia and fibula pseudoarthrosis present in one case and in curing the clubfeet present in the other two cases. Some consideration is made to the different etiopathogenetic theories, proposed in the past and recently, to explain this syndrome.