Abstract
Pathological processes of tumor, inflammatory, degenerative-dystrophic and other genesis, localized in the upper limb, in contrast to those in the lower limb, are extremely difficult to any therapeutic correction. With ineffective preserved treatment of the lower limb, the solution is quite simple: amputation and prosthetics, which are currently quite developed. However, prosthetics for diseases of the shoulder girdle and upper limb has its own characteristics. The foundations of safe interventions in the upper limb were laid by Pean in 1883 - with destructive tuberculosis of the humerus head, he used a prosthesis of his own design.
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