COPYRIGHT © 2015 BY THE JOURNAL OF BONE AND JOINT SURGERY, INCORPORATED » Distraction osteogenesis, utilized for reconstruction of skeletal deformities and bone defects, encompasses three phases of repair that are distinct from those of fracture-healing: latency, distraction, and consolidation. During distraction, osteogenic potential is maintained because of a number of molecular, cellular, an...

There are few reports on skeletal reconstruction using the bone transport technique to repair bone defects caused by resections of tumors associated with osteosarcoma. We attempted to reconstruct a 23 cm bone defect after resection of an osteosarcoma of the left femur, and succeeded in gaining 17 cm by bone transport. Five years after surgery, this patient remains alive without metastasis or lo...

It is a challenging topic to perform pattern reconstruction from a unit-width skeleton, which is obtained by a parallel thinning algorithm. The bias skeleton yielded by a fully-parallel thinning algorithm, which usually results from the so-called hidden deletable points, will result in the difficulty of pattern reconstruction. In order to make a fully-parallel thinning algorithm pattern reconst...

BACKGROUND Complex central chest wall resection defects present a challenging management problem for both thoracic and reconstructive surgeons. Although most chest wall defects can be repaired using local and regional flaps, more complicated cases require increasingly sophisticated techniques such as microsurgical free tissue transfer. This study reviews a single plastic surgeon's experience ov...

Nerve injury commonly contributes to irreversible functional impairment, reconstruction of the function of muscle is big challenge. In denervated skeletal muscle, therapid expression of MyoD mRNA and protein also occurs during early postdenervation, which suggested that the function of denervation-induced MyoD may be to prevent denervation-induced skeletal muscle atrophy. However, the detail me...

Techniques that are currently available for estimating stature and body mass from European skeletal remains are all subject to various limitations. Here, we develop new prediction equations based on large skeletal samples representing much of the continent and temporal periods ranging from the Mesolithic to the 20th century. Anatomical reconstruction of stature is carried out for 501 individual...

In recent years, deep learning techniques have been applied in musculoskeletal radiology to increase the diagnostic potential of acquired images. Generative adversarial networks (GANs), which are neural that can generate or transform images, aid faster imaging by generating images with a high level realism across multiple contrast and modalities from existing protocols. This review introduces k...

it has been reported that cither lithium or verapamil can potentiate the neuromuscular blocking activity of certain neuromuscular blockers. in the present investigation, possible interaction of verapamil with lithium has been described. the dose ■ response effects of verapamil and lithium on diaphragmatic contractility were assessed in vitro. mechanical responses of the muscle to indirect (nerv...