OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of SIGN Pediatric and Fin nails in treating pediatric diaphyseal femur fractures. DESIGN Prospective case series. SETTING Level I trauma center from 2010 to 2013. PATIENT/PARTICIPANTS Eighteen patients (13 male and 5 female) with pediatric diaphyseal femur fractures who did not achieve skeletal maturity. INTERVENTION...

Caisson disease, or decompression sickness, is encountered when a raised atmospheric pressure on the body is reduced too rapidly and excess gases which have been held in solution in the blood and tissue fluids are set free as their solubility decreases. Typically the condition is manifested by tingling and paraesthesia, itching of the skin, and by bone and joint pains. The symptoms vary within ...

This work is based on a study of necrosis in 150 femoral heads in adults who had no evidence of such causal factors as a fracture, dislocation, caisson disease, sickle-cell anaemia or Gaucher’s disease (Fig. 1). This condition has been recognised during the last ten years: but only eleven cases were seen before 1958, and no less than 139 during the next five years. Idiopathic necrosis was descr...

OBJECTIVE We wanted to analyze the factors affecting the results of multiple cannulated screws fixation in patients less than 60 years old with femoral neck fracture (FNF). METHODS We reviewed 52 patients (30 males, 22 females) who were treated with multiple cannulated screws fixation for FNFs. They were followed up for more than one year during January 2002 to December 2012. They were classi...

The incidence and long-term outcome of undisplaced fatigue fractures of the femoral neck treated conservatively were examined in Finnish military conscripts between 1970 and 1990. From 106 cases identified, 66 patients with 70 fractures were followed for a mean of 18.3 years (11 to 32). The original medical records and radiographs were studied and physical and radiological follow-up data analys...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of depression on femoral head avascular necrosis (AVN) from femoral neck fracture in patients younger than 60 years and the relationship between depression and postoperative quality of life. The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) was completed by 641 patients (352 men and 289 women; average age, 41.7±10.2 years; range, 20-60 years) postop...

The authors examined the associations of maternal smoking in pregnancy with various fetal growth characteristics among 7,098 pregnant women participating in the Generation R Study (2002-2006), a population-based prospective cohort study of pregnant women and their children in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Maternal smoking was assessed by questionnaires administered in early, mid-, and late pregna...

A male patient with portal hypertension, portal vein thrombosis, spontaneous splenorenal shunt formation, and encephalopathy, thought to have post-hepatitis B cirrhosis, is described. His condition deteriorated and necessitated liver transplantation. In the explant liver, nodular regenerative hyperplasia with pronounced vascular lesions both in portal venules and in arterioles was found instead...

BACKGROUND Tumour necrosis factor antagonists (anti-TNF-α) have demonstrated the efficacy in different chronic immune inflammatory disorders. Within the spectrum of adverse events, autoimmune diseases have been observed, including cases of alopecia areata (AA). OBJECTIVES The objective of the study is to characterize AA developed during anti-TNF-α therapy. METHODS We present five new cases ...