We present 2 patients with osteomyelitis variolosa in both elbow joints--sequelae of smallpox. The condyles were elongated and the central portions of the distal humeri were absorbed and the elbow joints were unstable. One of the patients sustained a closed fracture of the distal humerus. The fracture united uneventfully following stabilisation and bone grafting. At the 13-year follow-up, the p...

Supracondylar humerus fractures are common in children and can compromise the brachial artery 5% to 15% of cases. A 4-year-old boy with a left supracondylar fracture developed upper extremity ischemia after pinning fracture. Computed tomography angiography revealed cutoff flow artery. Intraoperatively, he was found have bands tethering into fracture, obstructing blood flow. The orthopedic pins ...

The fracture of the upper end of the humerus is the third most frequent fracture in the elderly and its distribution is bimodal, preferentially affecting osteoporotic elderly patients after low energy trauma or, more rarely, young subjects as a consequence of severe kinetic mechanism The treatment of complex fractures of the proximal humerus is the subject of much controversy. Telegraph nail is...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Supracondylar fracture of the humerus is the most common elbow fracture in children. This fracture needs immediate diagnosis and treatment, otherwise, it may lead to significant neurovascular and functional problems. The aim of this study was to assess the short term outcome of displaced supracondylar fracture of the humerus in children by open reduction and pining from...

Introduction and purpose: Pulmonary embolism (PE) is one of the leading causes death worldwide. There are many factors that increase risk its occurence. High costs treatment, non-specific symptoms high mortality disease determine further search for new methods treatment diagnostics. The aim study to incidence PE in patients after fracture proximal end humerus.
 Materials methods: A literat...

The incidence of Monteggia lesion is only 1 to 2% of all childhood forearm injuries and even less in adults [2]. Distal humerus intraarticular fractures constitute 0.5%-7% of all fractures and 30% of elbow fractures [3]. Monteggia lesion have been found to be associated with wrist lesions [1,4,5]. Wiley and Galey [1] & Arazi et al. [6] reported one case each of the ipsilateral supracondylar fra...

BACKGROUND The olecranon approach has been the gold standard for surgical approaches to fracture fixation of distal articular surface of humerus. Although it provides a good exposure, it also has disadvantages of delayed union, nonunion and implant related complications at the osteotomy site. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the functional outcome of displaced intra-articular ...

Pulmonary embolism is a serious complication, which is well known in patients undergoing total hip or total knee arthroplasty or lower extremity fracture surgery. But, there are few literatures concerning pulmonary embolism after upper extremity surgery. Pulmonary embolism after minor upper extremity fracture surgery is extremely rare. We report a case of 66-year-old female patient that develop...