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Weinstein operation

Weinstein operation (V. G. Weinstein, the Soviet surgeon, was born in 1901)

Allocate Weinstein operation:

  1. Plastic surgery at habitual dislocation of a shoulder during which strengthen front department of the capsule of a shoulder joint by means of movement to the front site of a surface of a head of a humeral bone, a long head of a biceps, and extension of an infrascapular muscle;
  2. Plastic surgery at a heavy contracture of a shoulder joint after a burn during which cut skin hems between a thorax and a shoulder and close wounds counter or free triangular skin rags.
 
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