Total Elbow Arthroplasty in Patients Forty Years of Age or Less

It is generally accepted that prosthetic elbow replacement should be avoided in young patients because of an anticipated high rate of early failure. The purpose of this paper was to define the success, prosthetic survival rate, and problems encountered in patients who were treated with a semiconstrained total elbow arthroplasty when they were forty years of age or less.We retrospectively reviewed the records of 758 patients who had undergone...