A 24-year-old Croatian soldier sustained a comminuted fracture of the femur and after stabilization with AO external fixation an infected late false aneurysm of the superficial femoral artery developed. The aneurysm was extirpated and the artery reconstructed using the saphenous vein.

OBJECTIVES This study aims to evaluate the possible effects of early weight-bearing on clinical and radiological outcomes of comminuted calcaneal fractures treated with locking plates. PATIENTS AND METHODS This retrospective study included 15 patients (12 males, 3 females; mean age 40.1 years; range 18 to 55 years) with comminuted calcaneal fractures between October 2010 and April 2012. Stand...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the stability of the figure of eight plus circular wiring fixation technique compared with four common internal fixation techniques and to provide experimental data for the selection of internal fixation techniques clinically. A total of 20 fresh cadaveric elbow joints were used as transverse, oblique and comminuted olecranon fracture models. Five te...

On or about the 9th October last, a young lad, aged 12, met with a tram accident, The accident occurred in a somewhat curious way. The lad left the car, while it was in motion, uninjured ; but while, out of sheer childish prank, he tried to pick up with his right foot one of his slippers which fell off from his foot below the car, he was run over. The right foot sustained a compound comminuted ...

PURPOSE To evaluate outcome following supracondylar nailing for distal femur fractures. METHODS The clinical and radiological outcome for 13 patients treated between January 1995 and December 1998 at the University Malaya Medical Center was assessed. Patients were seen for follow-up for a mean duration of 20.2 months. RESULTS There were no cases of non-union or infection. Overall assessment...

Twenty-six children conservatively treated for fracture of the femoral shaft have been reviewed with regard to differences in limb length seven to ten years after the injury. In nine patients the clinical measurements were checked against radiographic measurements of both femora and tibiae. The following conclusions were reached. Nearly two-thirds of the patients had overgrowth of the femur of ...

Bengal Nagpur Railway. Owing to the teaching of Arbuthnot Lane it is now generally accepted that simple fractures, which cannot be satisfactorily reduced and kept in good position by the ordinary methods, should be operated upon and the bones fixed in position by some form of bone suture. Nobody would suggest that the ordinary uncomplicated fracures should be operated upon, because if they are ...