BACKGROUND The number of revision Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) is rising in many countries. The aim of this study was the prospective assessment of the underlying causes leading to revision TKA in a tertiary care hospital and the comparison of those reasons with previously published data. METHODS In this study patients who had revision TKA between 2010 and 2015 were prospectively included. R...

BACKGROUND Insufficient satisfaction outcome literature exists to assist consultations for scar revision surgery; such outcomes should reflect the patient's perspective. The aim of this study was to prospectively investigate scar revision patient satisfaction outcomes, according to specified patient-selection criteria. METHODS Patients (250) were randomly selected for telephone contacting reg...

BACKGROUND In the aging society, there is a growing number of patients with advanced degenerative disease of the spine. These patients frequently require surgical treatment. This paper aims to analyse the reasons for failure of surgery for degenerative disease of the lumbar spine. MATERIAL AND METHODS Histories of patients operated on by one group of surgeons in the Neuroorthopaedic Departmen...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the hearing results of revision stapes surgery performed because of previously failed operations and to determine the causes of failure. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review of revision stapes operations. SETTING Tertiary referral center. PATIENTS Sixty-three consecutive revision stapes operations were performed in 56 patients over a period of ...

STUDY DESIGN A retrospective study. PURPOSE To elucidate the causes of late revision following bone cement augmentation for osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs). OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE Percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) or kyphoplasty (KP) is thought to be effective for the treatment of OVCFs. Many complications related to PVP or KP have been reported. However, there is a pau...

Staged Revision Surgery for Failed Cavovarus Hindfoot Reconstruction This volume of Grand Rounds from HSS focuses on foot and ankle surgery. We offer challenging cases presented by HSS Foot and Ankle specialists; three patients who presented with malalignment, instability and disabling pain who had previously undergone unsuccessful procedures for relatively common conditions. Each case required...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To evaluate the quantitative biochemical response, recurrence rate, and rate of surgical complications for thyroid cancer revision surgery. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review. METHODS This is a single institution analysis of a prospective database of 181 patients undergoing reoperation for local recurrent thyroid cancer by the same surgeon from 2004 to 2013 with intraop...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to identify possible causes of failure of hip arthroscopy by reviewing the intraoperative and radiologic findings in a series of patients requiring revision hip arthroscopy. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed 24 revision hip arthroscopy cases performed in 23 patients (14 female and 9 male; mean age, 33.6 years; 1 bilateral). The review included indicatio...

Postoperative epidural fibrosis (EF) is still a major limitation to the success of spine surgery. Fibrotic adhesions in space, initiated via local trauma and inflammation, can induce difficult-to-treat pain constitute main cause failed back surgery syndrome, which not uncommonly requires operative revision.