INTRODUCTION Congenital hallux varus of secondary type is associated with polydactyly, syndactyly or other congenital deformities of the foot. Such congenital deformities can be addressed in childhood with soft tissue reconstructive procedures. In adulthood, treatment of these deformities is challenging because of soft tissue contractures and rigid bony deformities. To our knowledge, this is th...

BACKGROUND Bone and soft-tissue defects in infected wound have been an intractable problem to many surgical consultations. Infected wounds with bone defects are physical and financial burden to society. Nowadays, infected wounds with compound defect of bone and soft tissues are common in orthopedics department. Currently, no simple and efficient treatment has been found to solve this problem. T...

Purpose. This paper reports the procedures and the clinical results of a series of surgical treatments for skeletal metastases from soft tissue sarcomas.Subjects and methods. Surgical treatment of metastatic bony lesions from soft tissue sarcomas has been carried out over a 20 year period (1975-1996). Thirty-two patients developed skeletal metastases from soft tissue sarcomas, and 20 of these c...

Sweep imaging with Fourier transform (SWIFT) method has been developed to image tissues with very short T2 values, such as cortical bone. The purpose of this study was to measure the T1 value of the rat cortical bone. It was approximately 120 ms on 7.04T. This result could thus be useful for studying bony tissue according to the SWIFT method in the future.

DESCRIPTION A 2-year-old boy presented with an atypical craniofacial cleft going through the right nostril with a soft-tissue extension of 2 × 1 cm. A computed tomographic scan showed bony involvement of the right nasal bone, right frontal bone, anterior cribriform plate anomalies, and no encephalocele.

This contribution presents an approach to the diagnosis of symptoms referable to spinal pathology in patients with known malignancy. Pain and neurological disturbance are distressing and disabling symptoms, which in patients with cancer may be a result of bony metastases, paraspinal soft tissue disease and meningeal and intra-axial spinal metastases. Imaging studies are pivotal, and typical and...

Bone has a capability to repair itself when it is fractured. Repair involves the generation of intermediatetissues, such as fibrous connective tissue, cartilage and woven bone, before final bone healing can occur. Theprocess of cartilage-to-bone transition (CBT) is a key for the achievement of rigid bone healing duringfracture repair. We tested this potential for elastic cartilage using a long ...

DESCRIPTION A 62-year-old man presents with a 5-cm anterior defect of the mandible extending from the parasymphyseal region to the angle after radiation and oncologic resection. A free fibular flap is utilized to reconstruct both soft tissue and bony anatomy.

Ultrasonographic examination is a readily available, inexpensive diagnostic technique for investigating osseous and soft tissue abnormalities of the equine head, is complementary to radiography, and may elucidate bony abnormalities not initially apparent on skull radiographs. Ultrasound may provide enough information to preclude computed tomography examination or may validate recommendations fo...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com repair [2]. The resulting bone and joint deformities may be associated with instability and may compromise the fitting of shoes or braces. Furthermore, ulceration may result from instability or bony prominence and may cause chronic or recurrent soft tissue infection and osteomyelitis. Amputation may be required for management of infection or instabi...