We used a saline load test in 50 consecutive patients with periarticular lacerations suggestive of joint penetration. The surgeon had predicted on clinical grounds whether or not the laceration penetrated the joint. Joint penetration was demonstrated in 14 and was absent in 36. A comparison of the prediction and the test results showed that there were false-positive clinical results in 39% and ...

MM Al-Qattan, HM Clarke, V Bowen. Conservative management of transverse partial flexor digitorum profundus tendon lacerations in zone 2. Can J Plast Surg 1995;3(3):157-160. The experience with six patients managed conservatively following transverse partial flexor digitorum profundus tendon lacerations in zone 2 is presented. Four patients who were mobilized using elastic traction experienced n...

Ice hockey is a fast paced sport with unique injury potential. A covering physician must be prepared to acutely manage injuries to the face, neck, and chest that are not common in orthopedic practice. Injuries about the face seen in ice hockey include facial fractures, lacerations, and eye and dental injuries. Neck trauma can result in lacerations and neurologic injury. Commotio cordis and sudd...

The topography of the intraneural fascicular groups must be understood if the treatment of acute lacerations of the major nerves in the forearm is to be successful. Most lacerations in the upper extremity occur at the wrist and in the distal half of the forearm. With microsurgical longitudinal dissections and serial sections, we studied the intraneural topography of the fascicular groups of the...

background: teat lacerations are serious injuries thatendanger the survival of a cow within the herd. in excessivelacerations, the wound should be left to heal by second intentionhealing process. however, tissue contraction during healing canchange the alignment of the teat, creating problems for machinemilking. objectives: the purpose of the present study was toevaluate the transplantation of ...

BACKGROUND The object of our study is to research into the quality of the different delivery positions, offered in our hospital with special focus on the advantages for birth in water. METHODS From February 1997 to 1 October 2000 we do research retrospectively on data of 555 deliveries in water, 320 on the traditional bed and 125 on the delivery stool give us the possibility to investigate ab...

OBJECTIVE Instrumental vaginal delivery is associated with birth trauma to infant and obstetric trauma to mother. As caesarean delivery rates increased during the past decades, the rate of instrumental vaginal delivery declined. We examined concomitant temporal changes in the rates of severe birth trauma and maternal obstetric trauma. DESIGN A retrospective observational study. SETTINGS AND...