BACKGROUND We examined factors associated with the clinical presentation of patients judged likely by orthopedic surgeons to benefit from nonarthroplasty knee surgery. METHODS Consecutive patients presenting to orthopedic surgeons were eligible for the study and 103 were recruited. A trained research assistant took histories, performed physical examinations, and administered a standardized qu...

Computer assisted orthopedic surgery (CAOS) is a recent concept in orthopedics. Its use in orthopedic trauma is becoming more popular. Pelvic and acetabular trauma is one of the applications where CAOS can play an important role to facilitate the surgery. In this review article, we provide an overview of the structure of CAOS with special emphasis on its role in pelvic and acetabular trauma. Th...

The movement toward official academic training for medical professionals in the 12th and 13th centuries led to the exclusion of women from professional health care because they were excluded from universities.1-3 Although women were barred from the practice of surgery, they were able to fill roles as bonesetters. The treatment of musculoskeletal conditions was largely the domain of bonesetters ...

During typesetting of the aforementioned article, a number of erroneous commas were inadvertently introduced into the quantities cited. Furthermore, the authors noted that the description of Fig. 2 was incorrect in the results section. As such, the following corrections should be highlighted: In the Results section of the Abstract, the following sentence is incorrect ‘We identified 4,85,895 ort...

Three cases of hypotension after major orthopedic operation were diagnosed clinically with sudden hypothyroidism. These patients were treated by hormone supplementation. We propose a conventional thyroid function examination of all advanced-age patients before major orthopedic surgery.

The frequency of immune heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) varies among prospective studies. It is unknown whether this is caused by differences in the heparin preparations, the patient populations, or the types of serologic assay used to confirm the diagnosis. Seven hundred forty-four patients were studied from 3 different clinical treatment settings, as follows: unfractionated heparin (UF...