BACKGROUND To evaluate the intermediate-term outcomes of radius shortening as a treatment for Kienbock's disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a historical cohort, 16 skeletally mature patients (9 men and 7 women) with Kienbock disease, who were treated with radial shortening osteotomy between 2002 and 2012, were reviewed in our study. The mean age of our patients was 30 (range 18-43) years old. ...

Objectives. The aim of the study was to investigate the results of patients with isolated length discrepancy between ulna and radius who underwent distraction osteogenesis with unilateral external fixator. Material and Methods. A patient with ulna shortening due to multiple enchondromatosis, a patient with ulna shortening due to ulnar club hand, and a patient with radial shortening due to radia...

To the authors' knowledge, this is the first article to present a pedicle subtraction osteotomy in the lumbar spine to correct and stabilize a high-grade isthmic spondylolisthesis, which poses many challenges with regard to treatment options and outcomes. The optimal surgical treatment for high-grade spondylolisthesis is controversial, but the goals of treatment are to stabilize the affected sp...

Moderate to severe hallux valgus deformities associated with a wide first intermetatarsal angle require a first metatarsal osteotomy for adequate correction. A variety of procedures have been introduced such as the crescentic, chevron, scarf, closing or opening wedge osteotomies of the first metatarsal base, and the Ludloff and Mau procedures.7,8,10,15,16,17,24,27 Recently the Ludloff osteotomy...