Although several studies have demonstrated good results with open reduction and internal fixation of intercondylar fractures of the distal humerus, few have specifically addressed the results of such surgical fixation in young adults. The purpose of this study was to compare the clinical outcomes in patients with intercondylar fractures of the distal humerus treated using two different double-p...

Background and Objective: Balloon-assisted coil embolization has become an important adjunct in the endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms. The management of broadnecked cerebral aneurysms is technically perplexed due to a variety of factors, which include the difficulty in defining the aneurysm-parent vessel interface angiographically and problems in achieving complete aneurysmal occ...

Introduction: Amiodarone pulmonary toxicity (APT) can be a diagnostic challenge to clinicians as it has no pathognomonic clinical, laboratory, radiological or histological features. It can potentially be fatal particularly in high risk patients. Amiodarone pulmonary toxicity is dose dependent, however, low dosages have also been reported to cause severe pulmonary disease. Therefore, it should b...

BACKGROUND Acetabular fractures are quite challenging injuries for the orthopedic surgeon because of their low incidence and their deep and complex anatomy. The objective of this study was to evaluate surgeon-independent parameters that might influence radiographic outcome and early complication rates of high-energy acetabular fractures treated by open reduction and internal fixation via the Ko...

Referring expressions (including descriptions such as “the man with the hat” and pronouns such as “he”) play a central role in communication, and their production has been studied extensively both from an empirical, psycholinguistic and a computational perspective. Psycholinguistic studies of reference production have yielded many interesting ideas (for instance concerning common ground and ali...

The Locking Compression Plate (LCP) and the Less Invasive Stabilisation System (LISS) are new implants with angular stability developed by the AO/ASIF. They offer an alternative for internal fixation in complex intra-articular fractures and high-energy diaphyseal fractures of the long bones. The new system was used in a prospective study to treat 113 patients (76 women, 37 men; average age: 53....

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the outcome of patients treated with open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) using dorsal plates and screws (AO/ASIF pi-plate) for dorsally displaced fractures of the distal radius. Although extensor tendon rupture is a recognized complication of all distal radial fractures, there appears to be an increased risk of this using dorsal plating. In addi...

PURPOSE To assess outcomes of antegrade interlocking nailing for supracondylar or intercondylar fractures of the distal femur. METHODS Records of 10 women and 20 men aged 20 to 70 (mean, 48.7) years who underwent antegrade interlocking nailing for distal femoral fractures were reviewed. 23 patients had closed fractures and 7 had open fractures; 6 had associated fractures of the forearm or tib...

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PURPOSE To determine whether the number of distal locking screws significantly affects stability of a cadaveric simulated distal radius fracture fixed with a volar locking plate. METHODS We created AO/ASIF type C2 fractures in 10 matched pairs of human fresh-frozen cadaveric wrists and then fixed them using volar locking plates. The number of distal locking screws used was 4 screws or 7 screw...