Since then, there have been many reports of this type of fracture dislocation. Bado named Monteggia lesion as a fracture of ulna at any level and a dislocation of radial head.

Thrity-five patient with Monteggia fracture were treated at department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Ehosun University Hospital from 1985. January to 1991 December. Twenty-seven patient, who were followed for a minimum of one year, subject of this review.

The results were as follows:

1. Among the 27 patients, male is about 3 times more than female.

2. The cause of injuries were traffic accident in 15, fall down in 10, belt injury in 1 and direct blowing in 1

3. Classification into 4 type by Bados method disclosed that type I accounts for 51.9% of cases, type II for 14.8%, type III for 22.8% and type IV for 11.1%

4. Sites of ulna fractures were upper one thlrd in 8, junction of upper and middle 1/3 in 11, middle 1/3 in 5, distal 1/3 in 1 and segmental 2.

5. Closed reduction of radial head dislocation was done in 13 cases open reduction in 6 cases, and excision in 8 cases.

6. All of the fractures of ulna were treated with open reduction and internal fixation with plate in 16, Rush pin in 6 and wiring in 5.

7. The partial posterior interosseous nerve injury was noticed in 3 cases and recovered completely within 8 weeks.

8. With the criteria of Bruce et al(1974), the result were excellent in 11, good in 7, fair in 5 and poor in 4.