The authors report the occurrence of an occult manubriosternal joint injury in the initial evaluation on a patient with a thoracic spine fracture (T9). This T9 fracture was diagnosed in a 37-year-old man and was associated with a partial neurological deficit. At the initial evaluation, the radiographs produced did not show the manubriosternal joint injury. During rehabilitation, after surgical ...

UNLABELLED To perform a clinical and radiographic assessment of patients undergoing surgical treatment using a cortical structural homologous bone graft for femoral reconstruction following mechanical failure of total hip arthroplasty and periprosthetic fractures. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted on 27 patients who underwent surgical treatment for femoral reconstruction following m...

Pseudarthrosis of the femoral neck is a fairly common complication of fracture of the femoral neck. It is defined by the absence or cessation of consolidation of a true cervical fracture. The period of consolidation is quite subjective, and three or four months after we accept evolution without consolidation, there is pseudarthrosis. Through 14 cases collected in our service, we will discuss th...

AIM The aim of the present study is to emphasize the optimal moment and approach for tibial pilon complex fractures and their complications. MATERIAL AND METHODS We have investigated and treated 7 patients with complex fractures of the tibial pilon with tendencies to complications. According to AO classification,we have recorded 4 fractures type 43C2 AO, 2 fractures type 43C3 AO (with one ope...

OBJECTIVE to demonstrate a surgical technique for treating neck fractures of the fifth metacarpal, by means of reduction through intra-focal manipulation and percutaneous fixation using Kirschner wires, with the aims of making it easier to achieve and maintain the reduction during the operation and enabling reduction of these fractures even if a fibrous callus has formed. METHODS a series of ...

Recent studies of the high temperature consolidation of titanium alloy coated c+alumina fiber tows and BC monofilaments have both revealed the widespread occurrence of fiber bending and fracture during early stage consolidation. This damage was shown to arise from the bending of unaligned fibers during consolidation and was found to be affected by the mechanical behavior of the metal-metal cont...

The authors report a case of a 78-year-old polytrauma patient, with severe thoracic trauma and bilateral symmetrical periprosthetic femoral fractures after a violent car accident. After the primary survey, with the thoracic trauma stabilized, neurovascular lesions excluded, and provisional immobilization applied, both fractures were classified as OTA: 33-A3, Rorabeck Type II, and closed reducti...

A 24-year-oldathlete presented following a fall onto an outstretched hand during a football match, total functional impotence of both upper limbs with swollen elbows, pain, without skin opening or motor deficit (A). Radiography of both elbows was objectified a fracture of the both olecranon (B).The patient was treated by tension-band wiring fixation with precocious postoperative rehabilitation ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of 2 different types of Cotrel-Dubousset instrument systems in stabilising thoracolumbar and lumbar spine fractures. METHODS Between January 1989 and December 1993, 45 fractures in 42 patients with unstable fracture or fracture dislocation of the thoracolumbar and lumbar spines were randomly assigned to 2 surgical treatments with Cotrel-Dubousset instru...

BACKGROUND Knowledge of the therapeutic patterns, challenges and outcomes of treatment of paediatric femoral fractures (PFF) helps to better choose the ideal therapeutic modality which is still controversial. However, this data is scarce in the sub-Saharan African literature. OBJECTIVE To determine the therapeutic patterns, treatment challenges and outcomes of treatment of PFF in a tertiary c...