cleft hand deformity is a rare congenital anomaly of the hand with an incidence rate about 1/90,000. it has two clinical types typical and atypical. in this paper we are representing ten cases of this anomaly admitted during seven years from 1992 in emam khomeini hospital. some of the patients especially those with typical cleft hand deformity achieved good functional results after surgical cor...

spine surgery began its evolution in the beginning of the 19th century in order to reach nowadays the point of being considered an important subspecialty of neurosurgery and orthopaedics. the purpose of this historical review is the search and evaluation of the progress in spine surgery until the middle of the 20th century. this review concerns the inauguration and evolution of this field in gr...

background: to determine the most important preoperative factors that affect postoperative coronal parameters of scoliotic curves.   methods: all adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (ais) patients included in the study were classified according to lenke and king classification. the fusion levels were selected according to the rigidity of the existing curves (correction less than 50%), tilt of t1 an...

background & importance: spinal deformity is one of the most common disorders among the vertebral diseases that results from unnatural curvatures of spine, such as scoliosis and kyphosis. spinal fusion surgery used most commonly to treat certain types of spinal deformity. here in, we report the efficacy of posterior spinal fusion accompanied by instrumentation in patients with the limitations o...

This article takes a comprehensive look at the effects of pectus excavatum, a congenital deformity with psychosocial and physical ramifications, and the Nuss procedure on the quality of life of adolescents. The Nuss procedure is a minimally invasive corrective surgery. Twenty-five participants from Calgary, Alberta were interviewed (10 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 16, 8 mothers, and 7...

Abstract Background Although drug therapy for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has recently improved, treating patients with established disease, whose hands have three major deformities (thumb deformity, finger deformities, and ulnar drift), remains a challenge. The underlying complex pathophysiology makes understanding these difficult, comprehensive assessment methods require accumulated skill long ...