Comparison of transforaminal verse interlaminar epidural steroid injection in low back pain with lumbosacral radicular pain: a meta-analysis of the literature.

abstract：PURPOSE:Aged patients represent a high risk group for acquiring spinal tuberculosis, and it still remains a leading cause of kyphosis and paraplegia in developing nations. Aged patients often combined with cardiovascular and respiratory disease and single lung ventilation via anterior approach surgery could result in m...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Wang YX,Zhang HQ,Liao W,Tang MX,Guo CF,Deng A,Wu JH,Liu JY

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials is to assess the effectiveness of no drainage when compared to drainage in total knee arthroplasty, in terms of recovery of knee flexion, reduction in swelling, length of hospital stay and haemoglobin levels following TKA. ...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Quinn M,Bowe A,Galvin R,Dawson P,O'Byrne J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This experimental study was undertaken in mice to investigate the procedures for storage of allogenic cancellous bone. Cancellous grafts were were stored at -80 degrees C, -196 degrees C or freeze dried. Grafts were implanted into a defect in the recipient's femur and after one week the cellular kinetic activity was a...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Mizutani A,Fujita T,Watanabe S,Sakakida K,Okada Y

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The most common reason for removal of well-fixed radial head prostheses is painful loosening. We hypothesised that short-stemmed prostheses, used for radial head arthroplasty, are not associated with an increased risk of implant loosening. METHODS:From 2002 to 2014, 65 patients were enrolled in a retrospe...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Laumonerie P,Reina N,Gutierrez C,Delclaux S,Tibbo ME,Bonnevialle N,Mansat P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The present study was designed to address whether osteoblasts play a synergistic role in promoting mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) osteogenesis in a direct cell-cell contact co-culture model. METHODS:Murine C3H10T1/2 and MC3T3-E1 cell lines were mixed and plated onto 12-well culture plates and co-cultured at vario...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Tsai MT,Lin DJ,Huang S,Lin HT,Chang WH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traumatic thumb defects significantly affect the function and appearance of the hand; thus, thumb reconstruction is very important in clinical practice. In our report, three reconstruction strategies of toe-to-thumb transplantation, based on the amputation level of the thumb, were used for immediate thumb reconstructi...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Huang D,Wang HG,Wu WZ,Zhang HR,Lin H

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In achondroplasts limb lengthening can restore the normal proportion of the body. The Ilizarov method of limb lengthening has been used in 37 patients, 23 of whom have had an adequate follow-up after operation. In this technique the cortex of the bone is partially cut, leaving the medulla intact; the two bone segments...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Cattaneo R,Villa A,Catagni M,Tentori L

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 16 patients with ulnar wrist pain, we performed primary arthroscopic or open repair of the peripheral rim tears of the triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC) (14 ulnar, 4 volar, and 3 radial tears). The wrist function was assessed before and 1 year after the repair using the Mayo-modified wrist score. The average...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Chou CH,Lee TS

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this prospective study was to measure bone density changes and to assess adaptive bone remodelling after uncemented total hip arthroplasty with a taper-design femoral component using quantitative computer-tomography-assisted osteodensitometry. This method is able to differentiate cortical and cancellous bon...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Pitto RP,Bhargava A,Pandit S,Walker C,Munro JT

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This study investigated which of the reciprocal stimuli between articular chondrocytes (ACs) and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) played the more important role in enhancing cartilage matrix formation, and examined the relative importance of physical contact and soluble factors in the co-culture system. METHODS:R...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Zuo Q,Cui W,Liu F,Wang Q,Chen Z,Fan W

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Hemiarthroplasty (HA) is generally considered to be the treatment of choice in the most elderly patients with a displaced fracture of the femoral neck. However, there is inadequate evidence to support the choice between unipolar HA or bipolar HA. The primary aim of this study was to analyse the outcome regardin...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Hedbeck CJ,Blomfeldt R,Lapidus G,Törnkvist H,Ponzer S,Tidermark J

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An appraisal of the clinical records of patients with malignant bone tumours enabled us to identify 61 whom we have treated by external fixation. There were 38 males and 23 females with ages ranging from 4 to 58 years, the mean being 14 years. The average period of follow-up was 6 years (1-12 years). For the purpose o...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Cañadell J,San-Julian M,Cara J,Forriol F

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fractures around a femoral prosthesis have been treated with plating and additional cement, but this leads to further reduction of bone stock in the proximal femur. Since February 1992, we have dealt with this problem in 12 patients by revision using a long uncemented stem and distal interlocking combined with homolog...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Eingartner C,Volkmann R,Pütz M,Weller S

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Different target areas within the concept of combined cup and stem anteversion have been published for total hip arthroplasty (THA). We asked whether component positioning according to eight standard combined anteversion rules is associated with (1) more physiological gait patterns, (2) higher improvement of ga...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Weber M,Weber T,Woerner M,Craiovan B,Worlicek M,Winkler S,Grifka J,Renkawitz T

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To identify potential risk factors and micro-organisms associated with prosthetic joint infection following primary total knee replacement surgery. HYPOTHESIS OF STUDY:Our hypothesis is that body mass index (BMI), operative time, type of surgery, and order of surgery especially in bilateral simultaneous cases ...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Iqbal F,Shafiq B,Zamir M,Noor S,Memon N,Memon N,Dina TK

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Information on Magnetic Resonance (MR) features of active and healed lesions in tuberculosis (TB) spine are lacking. We evaluated MRI findings in active and healed proven TB spine to establish the diagnostic features. MATERIALS AND METHOD:Forty-nine consecutive spinal TB patients (20 male; 29 female) diagnosed...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Jain AK,Sreenivasan R,Saini NS,Kumar S,Jain S,Dhammi IK

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We treated 19 patients with piriformis muscle syndrome. All patients complained of pain in the buttocks and the posterior thigh. Clinically the buttock was tender and passive stretching increased the pain. In ten patients skin sensation was reduced and three had a limp. All patients were treated with tenotomy. At foll...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Indrekvam K,Sudmann E

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluates the role of arthroscopy in the diagnosis of acute injuries to the knee. One hundred and fifty four patients with a suspected ligament injury or effusion of the knee joint underwent arthroscopy. A haemarthrosis was present in 82% and a bloodless effusion in 10%. Meniscal tears were found in 19% of ...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Johannsen HV,Fruensgaard S

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical and radiological follow-up investigation with at least 20 years observation time was made of 255 persons with lumbar spondylolysis with or without spondylolisthesis. The main purposes were to study the relationship between clinical and radiological features and to look for radiological and other variables o...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Saraste H,Nilsson B,Broström LA,Aparisi T

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Relatively little is known about the extent to which periprosthetic joint infections (PJI) affect the patient's long-term quality of life (QoL). Our study aim was to assess the effect of a periprosthetic infection on our patients' QoL. METHODS:We collected data retrospectively of patients who had undergone sur...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Helwig P,Morlock J,Oberst M,Hauschild O,Hübner J,Borde J,Südkamp NP,Konstantinidis L

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12-year-old boy with osteosarcoma in the proximal tibia underwent a successful limb-saving operation with preservation of the epiphyseal and articular cartilage of the proximal tibia as a result of his remarkable response to chemotherapy. There was no evidence of tumour invasion to the adjacent physis, as demonstrat...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Amitani A,Yamazaki T,Sonoda J,Tanaka M,Hirata H,Katoh K,Uchida A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe fives cases of an unusual type of injury to the wrist which has been seen in Sikhs, an ethnic population in India. It is caused by entrapment of the kara, an iron bangle, which is traditionally worn as one of five compulsory religious symbols. The injuries were an open transtriquetral palmar perilunar disl...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Mittal RL,Sharma RK

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Morphologic data of the knee is very important in the design of total knee prostheses. Generally, the designs of the total knee prostheses are based on the knee anatomy of Caucasian population. Moreover, in forensic medicine, a person's age and sex might be estimated by the shape of their knees. The aim of this...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Li K,Cavaignac E,Xu W,Cheng Q,Telmon N,Huang W

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The aim of this study was to determine whether distal locking using an electromagnetic-manual guided distal locking decreases the malrotation rate in femur fractures treated with intramedullary nailing. METHODS:A total of 113 adult patients having unilateral femoral shaft fractures treated using IM nails were ...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Ciftdemir M,Tuncel SA,Ozcan M,Copuroglu C,Erem M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Our aim was to elucidate the pooled outcome of the CementLess Spotorno (CLS) system in total hip arthroplasty (THA). METHODS:We compared the outcome of clinical inventor studies, independent clinical studies, and worldwide register data. The main endpoints for analysis were revision rates. RESULTS:Twenty clin...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Sadoghi P,Janda W,Agreiter M,Rauf R,Leithner A,Labek G

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of 199 total hip arthroplasties was performed using a porous-coated, hemispherical press-fit acetabular cup. At a mean follow-up of 91.5 months 158 cups were available for clinical and radiological review. The mean age of the patients at the time of the index arthroplasty was 62.5 years. The mean Harris Hip s...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Spicer DD,Schaper LA,Pomeroy DL,Badenhausen WE Jr,Curry JI,Suthers KE,Smith MW

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to compare bone healing of experimental osteotomies applying either piezosurgery or two different oscillating saw blades in a rabbit model. METHODS:The 16 rabbits were randomly assigned into four groups to comply with observation periods of one, two, three and five weeks. In all a...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Ma L,Stübinger S,Liu XL,Schneider UA,Lang NP

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Our aim was to investigate whether serum and synovial-fluid (SF) concentrations of interleukin-6 (IL-6), leptin, adiponectin, resistin or visfatin are associated with joint pain in hip and knee in end-stage osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS:A cross-sectional study assessing patients with hip and knee OA undergoing ...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Bas S,Finckh A,Puskas GJ,Suva D,Hoffmeyer P,Gabay C,Lübbeke A

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients who cannot walk, particularly those with orthopaedic deformities, need more than a simple wheelchair; they require a special seating system. Since the early 1970's many different systems have been introduced to the field of orthotics and prescribed through "Seating Clinics" in many centres in North America an...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Medhat MA,Redford JB

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computer-assisted surgery (CAS) in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) could be useful in reducing the overall blood loss. A prospective randomised study was performed with two groups of 50 patients each of whom were treated for knee arthritis. Patients of group A were treated by a conventional standard procedure, while for...

journal_title：International orthopaedics

authors： Conteduca F,Massai F,Iorio R,Zanzotto E,Luzon D,Ferretti A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00