Revision surgery is one of the most difficult reconstructive challenges facing orthopaedic surgeons; therefore, many new techniques and implants are needed to ensure that such patient can be successfully treated. We report a 66-year old female with a chronic dislocated bipolar hip prosthesis. She underwent a revision total hip arthroplasty combined with V-shaped subtrochanteric shortening osteo...

Despite the fact that common surgical techniques for the treatment of genu varum usually correct the malalignment in the affected knee, these methods have significant complications and cause problems in the long term. Retro-tubercle opening-wedge high tibial osteotomy is among the newer techniques for the treatment of genu varum. The goal of this study was to compare the results of retro-tuberc...

Repeated trauma to the radial head may be one of the causative factors in the genesis of osteochondritis dissecans of the capitellum. We measured the force, contact area and pressure across the radiocapitellar articulation of the elbow before and after radial shortening osteotomy in five fresh-frozen cadaver upper limbs with loads of 45, 90 and 135 N, respectively. Measurements were made on pre...

Rotational malunion of femoral fractures after intramedullary fixation is surprisingly common. Wiss et al (1986) reported from 10#{176} to 30#{176} external rotational deformity in 7% of 1 12 patients and Br#{226}ten,Terjesen and Rossvoll (1993) found that 21 of 1 10 fractures healed with over 15#{176} deformity. Rotation is often combined with shortening, especially in oblique or comminuted fr...