UNLABELLED Non-union is a well recognized complication of femoral neck fractures. The decision whether to attempt fracture fixation or to resort to hip replacement is particularly difficult in patients in the borderline age group in whom complex attempts at gaining union may fail and later present a difficult revision. On the other hand the patient may be young enough that arthroplasty best be ...

Background: Spondylolisthesis is defined as a displacement of one vertebra over the next lower vertebra in the sagittal plane. High-grade spondylolisthesis (HGS) is defined as greater than 50% slippage of a spinal vertebral body relative to an adjacent vertebral body as per Meyerding classification, and most common location being L5/S1 followed by L4/L5. The treatment of symptomatic high grade ...

In recent years, after resection of the ends of long bones, increasing use has been made of acrylic resins and stainless steel for replacement, to the exclusion of the bone-grafting procedures described by earlier workers. Rovsing (1910), after resecting the proximal two-thirds of the humerus for round-cell sarcoma in a man aged twenty-six, used a graft of the proximal end of the fibula to repl...

The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness combined one-stage reconstruction extensive complex defects lower limb tissues and analyze postoperative complications. Material methods . research involved 25 patients with bone soft tissue extremities. first group included 16 patients, where replacement soft-tissue leg carried out one bone-skin graft. second consisted 9 who, along maj...

INTRODUCTION Aneurysmal bone cyst is a rare, rapidly growing, and destructive benign bone tumor that rarely involves the bones of the hand. Various treatment options for aneurysmal bone cyst have been reported in the literature, but controversy exists regarding optimal treatment. CASE REPORT A six year old boy presented with a history of pain and local swelling over his third metacarpal of fi...

We evaluated the biomechanical properties of two different methods of fixation for unstable fractures of the proximal humerus. Biomechanical testing of the two groups, locking plate alone (LP), and locking plate with a fibular strut graft (LPSG), was performed using seven pairs of human cadaveric humeri. Cyclical loads between 10 N and 80 N at 5 Hz were applied for 1,000,000 cycles. Immediately...

Clinical behavior of aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC) in younger patients can be more aggressive than that in older children and adults. Angular deformity and shortening can occur due to growth plate destruction or tumor resection. A 11-year-old boy who had been operated twice in another center for an ABC located in the left proximal humerus presented to the author's institution with complaints of pa...

We describe the management of nonunion combined with limb-length discrepancy following vascularised fibular grafting for the reconstruction of long-bone defects in the lower limb after resection of a tumour in skeletally immature patients. We operated on nine patients with a mean age of 13.1 years (10.5 to 14.5) who presented with a mean limb-length discrepancy of 7 cm (4 to 9) and nonunion at ...