OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of simple dextrose prolotherapy in elite kicking-sport athletes with chronic groin pain from osteitis pubis and/or adductor tendinopathy. DESIGN Consecutive case series. SETTING Orthopedic and trauma institute in Argentina. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-two rugby and 2 soccer players with chronic groin pain that prevented full sports participation and who were no...

Osteitis pubis is one of the important complications of inguinal hernia repair surgery occurring with the placement of sutures through the periosteum. The aim of this study is to evaluate scintigraphic and histopathological alterations associated with the use of mesh fixation device on pelvic bone, cartilage and tendons in an experimental animal model. Twenty New-Zealand young male rabbits were...

CASE REPORT A 73 year old Polynesian woman was admitted with a 5 day history of severe pain in the right groin, right hip, and lower back and was unable to weight bear. Past history included tophaceous gout of 10 years’ duration, which was poorly controlled despite daily colchicine. She had chronic lymphoedema of the right leg (Milroy’s disease). This was complicated by recurrent episodes of ri...

This trial aimed to assess the value of MRI in the differential diagnosis of chronic groin pain in athletes, a condition caused by various pathologies, the most common being posterior abdominal wall deficiency, osteitis pubis and muscular imbalance. Nineteen subjects with clinically ruled-out hernia and recurrent episodes of exercise-triggered groin pain were assessed. Dynamic MRI was performed...

BACKGROUND Some men with localized radio-recurrent prostate cancer may benefit from salvage high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). Herein, we describe oncologic outcomes and predictors of disease response after salvage whole gland HIFU from our prospective cohort. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients with localized radio-recurrent prostate cancer were prospectively enrolled from January 2005 to ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the incidence of pubic osteomyelitis after bladder neck suspension using suprapubic bone anchors. METHODS The target population consisted of 290 consecutive women who underwent bladder neck suspension using suprapubic bone anchors between June 1994 and November 1999 at two referral centers. A structured telephone questionnaire was designed to elicit any history of clin...

BACKGROUND In recent years, platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has gained popularity within the orthopaedic community as a treatment modality to enhance tissue healing. PURPOSE This review aims to concisely present the current indications for PRP injections in the treatment of hip and pelvic pathologies and to describe some novel applications for PRP which have not yet been reported in the literature...

OSTEOMYELITIS of the pelvis has a sparse bibliography, probably because of its relative infrequency in general orthopaedics. Froener (1889) istated that less than 10%/ of cases occured in the pelvis in a series of 545 cases of acute osteomyelitis; Butler (1940) gives an incidence of 8% in 500 cases of acute osteomyelitis seen at the London Hospital. Von Bergmann (1906) found 63 cases of osteomy...