Uncommon Tissue Defects of Upper Extremities: Bacillus Antracis

Uncommon Tissue Defects of Upper Extremities: Bacillus Antracis

Introduction: Anthrax is a zoonotic disease caused by Bacillus anthracis spores. Cutaneous form is the most common and the least fatal form of the disease, however the disease is uncommon in Europe and U.S. and the reports in the literature are mostly case reports for upper extremity. Case Series: 7 patients, who were treated between 1999 and 2015 in our clinic with the diagnosis of cutaneous a...

A Case Report of Bilateral Upper Extremities Arthrogryposis

Arthrogriposis is a disorder in which two or more joints in more than one limb of body, place in a stable position and malformation status that usually is the result of jointschr('39') immobilization during fetal period. Problems resulting from this congenital deficit can occur in difference places, in upper and lower limbs, trunk, and even in face. It occurs in 3 of 1000 births, in two-third o...

The syndrome of familial defects of heart and upper extremities (Holt-Oram syndrome).

THE ASSOCIATION of atrial septal defect and anomalies of the upper extremities specifically involving one or both thumbs was first reported by Holt and Oram in 1960.1 In that same year, McKusick2 referred to this association in one family and used the term "atriodigital dysplasia" as well as the "HoltOram syndrome." Since that time one family has been reported by Zetterqvist,3 one family by Kuh...

Musculoskeletal Disorders of the Upper Extremities

Vascularized bone grafts to the upper extremities

Materials and methods The reconstructed site was the humerus in 15 cases, the radius, the ulna or the wrist joint in 22 cases, carpal or metacarpal bone in 52. The etiologies consisted of three traumatic bone defects, 13 traumatic nonunions of long bone, two osteonecroses of the humeral head, eight osteomyelitis, nine case after resections of bone tumor, two congenital pseudoarthroses of the ul...