INTRODUCTION Non-union of long bones is a significant consequence of fracture treatment. The ideal classification for non-union of long bones would give sufficient significant information to the orthopaedic surgeon to enable good management of the treatment required and to facilitate the creation of comparable study groups for research purposes. The Non-Union Scoring System (NUSS) is a new scor...

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 ...

The impact of union membership on employees intent to leave their jobs was examined to test the effect of unions voice face. Hierarchical regression analyses showed a significant, negative relationship (p < .001) between union membership and employees intent to leave. In addition, the data show a significant interaction between union membership and employees company satisfaction. Dissatisfied n...

BACKGROUND Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is a largely curable disease and its mortality had steadily declined in western Europe since the late 1960s. Only modest declines were, however, observed in central/eastern Europe. MATERIALS AND METHODS We updated trends in mortality from HL in various European areas up to 2004 and analyzed patterns in incidence for selected European countries providing nation...

Murray (1941) reviewed evidence for the opinion that the best time to carry out internal fixation of a fracture is as soon after the injury as possible. The advantages claimed for immediate operation are the minimal interference with the normal healing process of a fracture, the ease of exposure and reduction, and the accurate identification of damaged tissues unaltered by oedema and fibrosis. ...

OBJECTIVES In the UK there are approximately 850 000 new fractures seen each year. Rates of non-union of 5-10% of fractures have been suggested, the cost to the National Health Service of treating non-union has been reported to range between £7000 and £79 000 per person yet there are little actual data available. The objective of this epidemiological study therefore is for the first time to rep...

This study was performed to evaluate the results of 14 years of application of Ilizarov method in treatment of infected non-unions of tibia and femur in patients with severe trauma and battlefield wounds. Seventeen patients with long bone nonunion (14 were with infected nonunion of tibia out of whom two were associated with tibial bone defects and 3 with infected non-union of femur) were admitt...

His master’s voice – The interplay between non-union and union representation arrangements at Eurotunnel (UK)

This paper documents the extent of union coverage and performance-related pay (PRP) – the latter representing one aspect of pay flexibility across standard and non-standard workers in Britain, using the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Survey, 1991-1997. We find there is no evidence of expansion of either union coverage or PRP towards any type of non-standard employment in the 1...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this paper is to share the outcome of cases of scaphoid non-union treated with 1,2 intercompartmental supraretinacular artery (1,2 ICSRA) vascularised graft at our institution, as well as to identify the possible factors for the failure of the procedure. METHODS This was a retrospective review of 13 cases of scaphoid fracture non-union treated with 1,2 ICSRA vascul...