This clinical note describes a 96-year-old patient who wears a lengthening prosthesis in connection with the shortening of his leg which occurred after osteomyelitis of his left knee at the age of six years. The prosthesis was made and issued to him when he was twelve years old, and had never been replaced. The considerations that need to be made when replacing the prosthesis of an elderly pati...

A series of 23 fractures of the femur were treated using femoral interlocking nails. The average follow-up period was 14.8 months. There were 14 closed fractures and 9 compound fractures. Closed nailing was done for 8 patients and open nailing for 15 patients. All the fractures united. There were no superficial or deep infections. The most common complication was leg length discrepancy; shorten...

OBJECTIVE To report on the original surgical management of a patient with severe trauma of both legs involving anastomosis of an omentum free flap with an emergency vascular bypass. METHODS After stabilization of the knee with an external fixator, a femoral-tibial bypass graft was performed to revascularize the leg with the contralateral great saphenous vein. Ten days later, an omentum free f...

Humans and non-human primates are known to lengthen their response time (RT) to a go signal when they occasionally must cancel their responses following a stop signal in a countermanding task as well as to adjust their RT adaptively on a trial-by-trial basis. Less is clear regarding the adaptive RT adjustments in the countermanding performance of rodents. To investigate this question, male Wist...

Ilizarov is an accepted technique for lengthening short amputation stumps to improve prosthetic function andrehabilitation. The relation of stump lengthening and phantom limb pain (PLP) has not been reported in literature.We present here a case report of a transfemoral amputee who had a flare up of PLP following stump lengthening.He responded well to a combination of pharmacological therapy and...

ABSTRACT Objective: Demonstrate the feasibility of endoscopic assisted L5S1 intraforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (iLIF) through a transiliac approach. Methods: Ten iLIF and ten supra iliac were performed bilaterally at in five randomly selected fresh-frozen human cadavers. The following measurements recorded: distances from track to crest, posterior superior spine, gluteal neurovascular bundl...

Leg Length Discrepancy (LLD) is a critical problem which not only impacts the quality of life but also causes other physical ailments such as limping and severe back pain. Most people had non-negligible difference in length their two legs, 0.1% population with differences 20 mm or more are diagnosed limb length. The Ilizarov external fixator commonly used treating LLD conventional therapeutic e...

STUDY DESIGN Systematic review. OBJECTIVE To identify and describe reconstruction methods for the treatment of transverse sacral fracture (TSF) and to evaluate outcomes based on treatment interventions. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA A variety of surgical interventions for stabilization of TSFs exist, yet the optimal management remains unclear. Although there are many individual case reports an...