Background: Conventional fixation methods of posterior wall acetabular fractures feature the use of plating and lagscrews. However, fixation of posterior wall fractures with buttress plating alone offers potential advantages by avoidingthe hardware complications related to hardware placement through the wall fragment. The purpose of this study wasto examine if buttress plating...

conclusion for the identification of nasal bone fractures, ct was significantly superior to conventional radiography. although a staff radiologist showed better values in the identification of nasal bone fracture and differentiation between depressed and non-depressed fractures than a trainee, there was no statistically significant difference in the interpretation of conventional radiography an...

purpose: surgeons performing an ilioinguinal exposure for acetabular fracture surgery need to be aware of aberrant findings such as inguinal hernias and spermatic cord lesions. the purpose of this study is to report these occurrences in a clinical series of adult males undergoing acetabular fracture fixation and a series of adult male cadavers. the secondary aim is to characterize these abnorma...

  Background: Fractures of the femoral shaft are mostly the result of high-energy accidents that also cause multiple trauma injuries, in particular ipsilateral knee and hip injuries. The purpose of this study was to investigate the incidence of injuries associated with femoral shaft fractures and how many of them were undetected. Methods: We studied 148 patients (150 femoral shaft fractures) wi...

osteoporosis is the most common metabolic bone disease. in addition to morbidity, osteoporotic fractures also increase mortality risk in affected patients. enough evidence is not available to indicate that, like western countries, osteoporosis is a public health problem in iran. therefore emrc planned to estimate the burden of osteoporotic fractures in year 2001 based on existing sources of dat...

A corrective osteotomy is a frequently required procedure for symptomatic malunions of the distal radius. A multitude of different methods have been proposed for correction of distal radius malunions. However, precise correction of a severe malunion that requires simultaneous adjustment of displacement and rotation in multiple planes remains a challenge. Technological advancements have resulted...

Corrective osteotomy of the distal radius for malunion has always been a challenging procedure. Deformity involves length, angulation and rotation. Planning an osteotomy on plain x-rays is difficult and in-exact. Reproducing that planned osteotomy in the operating theatre is even more difficult. Attempts to improve accuracy with the use of CT scanning and even the production of models have met ...

background:  little is known about trends and predictors of hardware related infection following open reduction and internal fixation (orif) of extremity fractures, one of the major causes of failure following orif. the present study was designed and conducted to determine trends and predictors of infection-related hardware removal following orif of extremities using a nationally representative...

hydraulic fracturing in the fractured reservoirs plays a significant impact on the production rate. in this study, the hydrostatic condition is taken into account, the hydraulic fracturing operation was applied in every direction usinga written distinct element code. in each direction the hydraulic fracture is applied with different lengths and in each level the amount of production is predicte...