In a randomised prospective study, 20 patients with intra-articular fractures of the distal radius underwent arthroscopically- and fluoroscopically-assisted reduction and external fixation plus percutaneous pinning. Another group of 20 patients with the same fracture characteristics underwent fluoroscopically-assisted reduction alone and external fixation plus percutaneous pinning. The patients...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether intraarticular abnormalities in osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee can be detected as well by needle arthroscopy as by standard arthroscopy. METHODS Needle arthroscopy followed by standard arthroscopy was performed on 10 patients with knee OA (diagnosed according to American College of Rheumatology criteria) whose symptoms were not entirely attributable to the OA a...

abstract background: the measurement of hand grip strength has several clinical applications to evaluate chronic hand disability, response to treatment, and work capacity after hand injury. methods: we measured hand grip strength of 41 adults and compared their maximum strength with radiographic indices. results: there was a significant relationship between hand grip strength and carpal height,...

Most arthroscopies in the body are carried out infusing water to create an optical working cavity. Under those conditions we found the management of distal radius fractures quite cumbersome, not to say that compartment syndrome risk did exist ( ). Furthermore, when we used to use water to distend the joint, performing semi-open operations such as osteotomies, or distal radio-ulnar joint reconst...

Objectives To measure the quality of life, the time to work return, and clinical, functional, and radiographic parameters of patients treated with dorsal capsulodesis associated with scapholunate (SL) reconstruction, assisted by arthroscopy. Methods From January 2015 to September 2016, 14 adult patients with SL dissociation underwent surgical treatment with the SL reconstruction procedure ass...

osteoid osteoma is a benign bone tumor that rarely involves joints. although there are several reports of arthroscopic osteoid osteoma excisions, to our knowledge, there are no reports of this type of treatment for osteoid osteoma in carpal bones. we report two cases of arthroscopic (a person who had a pain in the left wrist and the other one with carpal tunnel syndrome) with excision of osteoi...

UNLABELLED We assessed the proximity of neurological structures to arthroscopic portals in a cadaveric study and through a systematic review. Arthroscopy was performed on ten cadaveric wrists. Subsequently the specimens were dissected to isolate the superficial branch of the radial nerve, the dorsal branch of the ulnar nerve, the posterior interosseous nerve and the extensor tendons. We measure...