Superior dislocation of the patella is a rare diagnosis. A 72 year old woman attended the accident and emergency department of the hospital with a painful right knee after a knock to the knee. Clinical examination and radiographs confirmed a superior dislocation of the patella, which was reduced and closed with the aid of simple analgesia. The authors present the case report and discuss the rel...

The Bisurface knee prosthesis (BP) has a posterior stabilising cam (ball-and-socket joint) in the mid-posterior region of the femorotibial joint in an attempt to improve the range of movement. Based on an in vitro weight-bearing study contact areas of the Insall/Burstein 2 (IB2) and the BP knee were compared using pressure-sensitive films. The stability afforded by the cam was evaluated by mean...

Ligamentous injuries of the knee occur during sports and where there is extensive injury associated with subluxation or dislocation. We present a case of an obese female who sustained spontaneous non-traumatic posterior knee dislocation when she caught her foot while rising from the sitting down position. There was associated peroneal nerve injury but an angiogram confirmed no vascular compromi...

Background: Patellar dislocation accounts for 2–3% of all knee lesions and is the second most common cause traumatic hemarthrosis knee. Proper treatment essential to minimize long term sequelae, such as recurrent dislocation, painful subluxation, osteoarthritis. Aim: The purposes this perspective randomized study were: 1) evaluate mid-term clinical radiological results Elmslie–Trillat procedure...

Congenital dislocation of the radial head is rare, although it is the most common congenital anomaly of the elbow. A concomitant progressive cubitus valgus of the elbow has not previously been described in literature. We describe a case of an 8-year-old girl with an unilateral congenital radial head dislocation with a progressive cubitus valgus of 35°, caused by a prematurely closing physis of ...

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Congenital dislocation of the radial head is rare, although it is the most common congenital anomaly of the elbow. A concomitant progressive cubitus valgus of the elbow has not previously been described in literature. We describe a case of an 8-year-old girl with an unilateral congenital radial head dislocation with a progressive cubitus valgus of 35 , caused by a prematurely closing physis of ...

Objective To determine the prevalence of talipes equinovarus, congenital dislocation of the hip, cleft lip/cleft palate, Down syndrome and neural tube defects among live newborns at Anuradhapura General Hospital, Sri Lanka. Method Babies born from February 2002 to January 2003 were examined for the above five congenital anomalies. Anomalies were recorded in a register and live birth prevalence ...

As early as 1678 Pare stated that lame people beget lame children, and in 1882 KrUnlein compiled the family trees of many generations of children with congenital dislocation of the hip. In series of patients with congenital hip dislocation a hereditary factor was noted in 20 2 per cent by Isigkeit (1928), in 227 per cent by Scaglietti (1932) and in 6l per cent by Francillon (1937). Mercer (1950...