On or about the 9th October last, a young lad, aged 12, met with a tram accident, The accident occurred in a somewhat curious way. The lad left the car, while it was in motion, uninjured ; but while, out of sheer childish prank, he tried to pick up with his right foot one of his slippers which fell off from his foot below the car, he was run over. The right foot sustained a compound comminuted ...

Comminuted, intra-articular calcaneal fractures can cause severe lower extremity impairment and have devastating effects on a patient's well being. Diabetes is a multisystem process that may cause neuropathy and loss of protective sensation further complicating the prognosis. Not all calcaneal fractures are created equal and when considering the patient's overall presentation and extent of inju...

satisfactory functional level, which may be crucial to elderly patients? Addressing these issues, various locking screws and implants are rapidly gaining popularity for these patients in certain regions. Such implants come with screws that directly engage the plate to create fixedangle bolts, thus offering better fixation in osteoporotic bone. Volar application of such locking implants can be u...

Excision arthroplasty of the interphalangeal joint was used as an alternative to digit amputation for comminuted fractures of the phalangeal bones in two dogs. Both patients had return of pain-free use of the affected limb, even though both weight-bearing digits were involved in one case. This type of surgery might prove to be superior to the more invasive digit amputation, salvaging the digits...