PURPOSE To compare the incidence of wound complications after hip surgery in patients treated with a compressive spica wrap dressing to those using traditional taping methods. DESIGN Retrospective, descriptive, comparative, intervention study. SAMPLE 457 hip surgery patients, including primary arthroplasty, revision surgery and fracture with ORIF. METHOD A compressive wrap dressing was us...

Transition-edge-sensor (TES) bolometers are the chosen detector technology for the SAFARI Imaging Spectrometer on the SPICA telescope. For this mission, SRON is developing bolometers, each consisting of a TiAu TES that is weakly coupled to the thermal bath through thin legs of silicon nitride. In order to understand and optimize the bolometer and to verify our detector models, we characterize t...

were highly congested, and black in some parts. Efforts at reduction failing, I extended the wounds, in consultation with Mr. Sakes, the then civil surgeon, upwards, for two inches, put back the coils of intestine, stitched the wound by a few knots of quill-suture, and dressed it with carbolic oil, and placed a spica baudage. A full dose of opium gr. iv. was at once prescribed, and brandy and m...

Functional limitations and pain are end results of scaphoid nonunion with progressive carpal collapse and radiocarpal arthritis. The aim of this study was to assess the functional outcome of four-corner arthrodesis with scaphoidectomy for the treatment of grade IV scaphoid nonunion with Scaphoid Nonunion Advanced Collapse (SNAC) stages II and III. Ten patients with symptomatic grade IV non unio...

BACKGROUND Fracture of the scaphoid is the most common fracture of a carpal bone. Nevertheless, the diagnosis of SF might be challenging. Plain X-rays that fail to demonstrate a fracture line while clinical findings suggest the existence of such a fracture is not uncommon. Currently there is no consensus in the literature as to how a clinically suspected SF should be diagnosed, immobilized and ...

Background: Reports of the efficacy of open reduction and Zigzag Osteotomy combined Fibular Allograft (ZOFA) for developmental dysplasia of the hip. The purposes of this study were to evaluate the long-term outcomes and complications after surgery. Methods: We performed a retrospective match-controlled study in which 158 patients had 181 hips with developmental dysplasia of the hip. Radiographs...