2. INTRODUCTION
• 3 BASIC APPROACHES POSTERIORLY
– POSTERIOR APPROACH TO THE PROXIMAL
HUMNERUS
– POSTERIO-LATERAL APPROACH TO DISTAL
HUMERAL SHAFT
– POSTERIOR APPROACH FOR MIDDLE TWO-THIRD
3. POSTERIOR APPROACH TO THE
PROXIMAL HUMERUS
AXILLARY NERVE AND
POSTERIOR CIRCUMFLEX
HUMERAL ARTERY
RADIAL NERVE AND
PROFUNDA BRACHII ARTERY
LATERAL HEAD OF TRICEPS
MEDIAL HEAD OF
TRICEPS
LONG HEAD OF TRICEPS
4. • EXPOSES THE BONE THROUGH THE INTERVAL
BETWEEN
– LATERAL HEAD OF TRICEPS
– DELTOID
• 8cm BONE CAN BE EXPOSED APPROX.
5. • EXTENT OF THE APPROACH
1. PROXIMALLY-
AXILLARY NERVE
POSTERIOR CIRCUMFLEX HUMERAL ARTERY
2. DISTALLY-
ORIGIN OF TRICEPS FROM LATERAL BORDER OF
SPIRAL GROOVE
UNDERLYING RADIAL NERVE
6. TECHNIQUE
• POSITION – LATERAL WITH EXTRIMITY
DRAPED FREE AND POSITIONED ACROSS THE
CHEST
7. INCISION
• PROXIMALLY – 5cm DISTAL TO POSTERIOR
ASPECT OF ACROMION
• DISTALLY – LEVEL OF DELTOID TUBEROSITY
• STRAIGHT INCISION OVER INTERVAL BETWEEN
DELTOID AND TRICEPS
8. • INTERVAL DEVELOPED BLUNTLY BETWEEN
LATERAL HEAD OF TRICEPS AND DELTOID
• PERIOSTEUM EXPOSED AND INCISED
LONGITUDINALLY
10. EXTENDED EXPOSURE
• PROXIMALLY-
– SUBPERIOSTEAL DISSECTION UPTO ORIGIN OF
LATERAL HEAD OF TRICEPS
– STRUCTURE TO BE PROTECTED
• AXILLARY NERVE
• POSTERIOR CIRCUMFLEX ARTERY
11. • DISTALLY-
– INSERTION OF DELTOID PARTIALLY RTELEASED
– STRUCTURE TO BE PROTECTED
• RADIAL NERVE
12. AXILLARY NERVE & POST.
CIRCUMFLEX ARTERY
RADIAL NERVE AND PROFUNDA
BRACHII ARTERY
LONG HEAD OF TRICEPS
LATERAL HEAD OF TRICEPS
DELTOID
HUMERUS
DELTOID TUBEROSITY
13. POSTEROLATERAL APPROACH TO
DISTAL HUMERAL SHAFT
• MODIFIED LATERAL APPROACH
• INTERVAL BETWEEN BRACHIORADIALIS AND
TRICEPS
• DOESN’T INVOLVE SPLITTING OF TRICEPS
18. • EXTENT
– DISTALLY MIDWAY BETWEEN
• LATERAL EPICONDYLE
• TIP OF OLECRANON
• 4cm DISTAL TO ELBOW JOINT
– PROXIMALLY
• 4cm POSTERIOR TO LATERAL INTERMUSCULAR SEPTUM
19. • DISSECTION
– FROM MID-POINT OF THE WOUND
– LATERALLY TILL LATERAL INTERMUSCULAR
SEPTUM
– TRICEPS FASCIA INCISED LONGITUDINALLY
– FASCIA INCISED AT LATERAL EDGE OF ANCONEUS
– UPTO 4cm DISTAL TO LATERAL EPICONDYLE
21. • RETRACTION
– ANCONEUS & FASCIA RETRACTED IN CONTINUITY
WITH TRICEPS
– POST. ANTEBRACHIAL CUT. NERVE IDENTIFIED &
PROTECTED
– RADIAL NERVE RETRACTED ANTERIORLY
– TRICEPS RETRACTED MEDIALLY
22.
23. • CLOSURE
– TRICEPS ALLOWED TO FALL INTO IT’S BED
– FASCIA CLOSED LOOSELY WITH INTERRUPTED
SUTURES
24. POSTERIOR APPROACH FOR MIDDLE
TWO-THIRDS
• HENRY DESCRIBED
• SPLITS THE TRICEPS
• FOR EXCISION OF TUMORS
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26. THANK YOU
“vihāya kāmānyaḥ sarvānpumāṃścarati niḥspṛhaḥ
nirmamo nirahaṅkāraḥ sa śāntimadhigacchati”
“That man attains peace who, abandoning all desires,
moves about without longing,
without the sense of mine and without egoism.”