Two cases of bilateral shoulder-hand syndrome and symmetrical arthralgia are described in patients with tubo-ovarian carcinoma. Swelling and contracture of the hands continued to develop despite oral corticosteroid therapy, and one patient underwent surgery in an attempt to prevent the development of further deformity.

ABNORMALITIES of thoracic configuration cani alter the iniformation derived from clinical assessment of the heart. Altlhouigh these alterations may he subtle, occasionally they may be sufficiently overt to produice signs that closely mimic organic heart disease. Pecttus excavatumn' 2 is a wvellrecognized thoracic deformity in this category. On the, other hand, absence, of normal thoracic kyphos...

Every week, thousands of civilians in India suffer accidental injury; every week hundreds of fractures and dislocations are sustained, and hundreds of soft-tissue injuries are suffered, including infections of the hand, burns, tendon and nerve injuries. What proportion of these civilian victims will carry to their grave a shortened limb or a crippling deformity ? How can we reduce this number ?...

Angular deformities of the lower limbs are a common clinical problem encountered in pediatric orthopaedic practices particularly in patients with osteochondrodysplasias. The varus deformity is more common than the valgus deformity in achondroplasia and hypochondroplasia patients because of the unusual growth of the fibulae than that of the tibiae. We retrospectively reviewed six patients (four ...

Hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) is caused by enterovirus or Coxsackie virus (CV) infection. It is characterized by palmoplantar vesiculopustular eruption and erosive stomatitis [1], which enables differential diagnosis from herpangina, aphthous stomatitis, and Kawasaki disease. There are several case reports on the nail presentation of HFMD [1-10], but some clinicians are not yet familiar with t...

purpose: to report a known case of leprosy with bilateral corneal scars. case report: we present a 70 year-old man who had developed claw hand deformity and loss of sensation in the extremities secondary to leprosy since 7 years ago. two years ago, he presented with loss of vision due to lagopthalmos and loss of corneal sensation for which he had undergone lateral tarsorrhaphy at the time. conc...

BACKGROUND Pediatric trigger thumb is a condition of flexion deformity of the interphalangeal joint in children. Although the surgical outcome is satisfactory, the indications for nonoperative treatment for this condition are not clear. The aim of the present study was to determine the rate of resolution of untreated pediatric trigger thumb. METHODS Data on seventy-one thumbs in fifty-three c...

Claw hand and z-thumb due to proximal or distal ulnar nerve paralysis, and loss of thumb opposition due to distal median nerve paralysis are the most common deformities affecting the hand in leprosy, and are among the main causes for stigma and de-habilitation. Ulnar or ulnar-median paralysis is more frequent than triple nerve paralysis (ulnar, median and radial). These deformities affect hand ...