1Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; 2Department of Surgical Sciences, Section of Orthopaedics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; 3Department of Hand Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland; 4Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Botnar Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; 5...

THE JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY G. Blunn, PhD, Professor The Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Orthopaedics, Brockley Hill, Stanmore, Middlesex HA7 4LP, UK. E. M. Brach del Preva, MD, Associate Professor Department of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, University of Turin, Via Zuretti 29, 10126 Turin, Italy. L. Costa, PhD, Professor IFM Chemistry Department, University of Turin,...

Computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery was born in the 1990s. Nowadays, computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery is used for transpedicular screw fixation and for total knee arthroplasty.Patient-specific instrumentation is one type of computer-assisted surgery based on volumetric images, such as computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging.In this article, possible applications of patient-spec...

O ur current trajectory suggests we are so far behind the curve of bringing women into orthopaedics that it would take a century or so to balance the scales; the previous bastions of neurosurgery and urology are out in front on this issue [21, 28]. Nothing is more disheartening to me as a medical student adviser than to see a young woman, exuberant with the discovery of surgery and what it has ...

This monograph, the first of Lewis's Practical Series on the various departments of Surgery, Medicine, and Gynecology, is a comprehensive and concisely written work on an important domain of surgery. It is the result of large and special experience gained at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital and other kindred institutions, and it deals most fully with Orthopaedics in its modern sense. Indeed, this...

In orthopaedic and trauma surgery, the rapid evolution of biomedical research has fundamentally changed the perception of the musculoskeletal system. Here, the rigor of basic science and the art of musculoskeletal surgery have come together to create a new discipline -experimental orthopaedics- that holds great promise for the causative cure of many orthopaedic conditions. The Journal of Experi...