Fixation and Needle Fixation

Clinical Results of Percutaneous Fixation of Pelvic and Acetabular Fractures: A Minimally Invasive Internal Fixation Technique

Background: The pelvic ring fractures (PRF) and acetabular fractures (AF) are among the major orthopedic injuriesassociated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. Open surgical stabilization is the standard treatment for themajority of these complications. Percutaneous minimally invasive surgical stabilization of the fractures has become anaccepted treatment method for th...

Drug users' experiences of injecting included descriptions of needle fixation.

QUESTION: Do injection drug users describe needle fixation in their experiences of using needles? Design Qualitative study using semistructured interviews. Setting 4 drug treatment agencies in south Wales, UK. Participants 24 participants (mean age 33 y, 83% men) who were drug users (mean duration of illicit drug use 15.3 y, mean duration of injecting drugs 11.6 y). 62% of participants had inje...

Functional Outcome of Internal Fixation of Radial and Ulna Fracture

Background: Displaced fractures of radius and ulna bones in adults are usually treated with open reduction and internal fixation. The purpose of this research was to access functional outcome of these fractures. Materials and Methods: In this research 52 Patients who underwent ORIF with DCP 3.5 in past 5 years were investigated. Post-operation protocol was one week immobilization and then acti...

Indirect Complement Fixation in Foot-and-Mouth Disease

Spinopelvic fixation.

Fusion to the sacrum presents as a complex and difficult technical procedure with outcomes which have been up until recently, relatively poor, with high pseudoarthrosis rates and associated with the development of so called flat back deformity or loss of lumbar lordosis. Previous reports from the morbidity committee of The Scoliosis Research Society in the late 1970’s indicated that this did no...