La vértebra de transición lumbosacra: relación degeneración y dolor. (Inglés)
La vértebra de transición lumbosacra: relación entre la degeneración del disco y el dolor distal de la espalda. Luoma K, Vehmas T, Raininko R, Luukkonen R, Riihimaki H. Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland. katariina.luoma@hus.fi STUDY DESIGN: Cross-sectional magnetic-resonance imaging (MRI) study. OBJECTIVE To investigate therelation of the lumbosacral transitional vertebra to signs of […]
La infiltración peri-radicular en pacientes con radiculopatía.(Inglés)
La infiltración peri-radicular es segura y efectiva en pacientes con radiculopatía. Peri-radicular infiltration is safe and provides short-term benefit to patients with radicular pain due to spinal stenosis or lumbar disc herniation (LDH), reports a study from the United Kingdom. Peri-radicular infiltration to treat redicular pain has been demonstrated in several studies, but few prospective […]
Radiografía de osteoartritis comparada con radiografía de rodilla normal.(Inglés
La radiografía de osteoartritis asociada con diferentes tasas de pérdida de hueso comparada con radiografías de rodilla normal. Men and women with radiographic osteoarthritis (OA) of the hands and knees have different rates of bone loss than those with normal knee radiographs, reports a study from the United States. Although studies have reported higher adjusted […]
La variación estacional de la densidad ósea en mujeres postmenopáusicas.(Inglés)
Gerdhem P, Mallmin H, Akesson K, Obrant KJ. Department of Orthopaedics, Malmo University Hospital, SE-205 02 Malmo, Sweden. We investigated seasonal variation in bone density by cross-sectional designs in two large cohorts of women (N = 2337) in Sweden. One cohort was strictly population-based (all 75 yr old, N = 1044), and one cohort was […]
Transposición subcutánea estabilizada del nervio cubital. (Inglés)
Hashiguchi H, Ito H, Sawaizumi T. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nippon Medical School Second Hospital, 1-396 Kosugicho, 211-8533, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki City, Kanagawa, Japan. hashi.h@d6.dion.ne.jp We treated 50 patients (average age 47.9 years) with a stabilized subcutaneous transposition of the ulnar nerve. The average follow-up period was 42.4 months. The indication was cubital tunnel syndrome in […]
Resección marginal en cuña para la osteomilitis crónica de hueso ilíaco.(Inglés)
Six patients with chronic osteomyelitis of the iliac bone were treated with marginal resection of the infected segment. All patients were healthy active males without predisposing factors. Their age ranged between 14 and 38 years. All patients had recurrent drainage of abscesses for 2-9 years. In three patients, the infection followed a gunshot injury, in […]
Aloinjertos corticales en la tuberculosis espinal. (Inglés)
Govender S, Kumar KP. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of Natal, Private Bag 7, Congella, 4013, Durban, South Africa. katia@nu.ac.za One-hundred-twenty-three patients with neurological deficit due to spinal tuberculosis underwent anterior spinal decompression and anterior column reconstruction with fresh-frozen femoral allograft. Fifty-two patients with a follow-up of more than […]
La profilaxis antibiótica regional en la cirugía de codo. (Inglés)
Govender S, Kumar KP. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of Natal, Private Bag 7, Congella, 4013, Durban, South Africa. katia@nu.ac.za In this study we describe a technique for the delivery of regional antibiotic prophylaxis in patients undergoing elbow surgery and compare tissue antibiotic concentrations achieved by this technique with […]
MRI simplificado en reconstrucción de ligamento anterior cruzado. (Inglés)
MRI secuencia simplificada en el control postoperatorio de la reconstrucción de la rotura del ligamento anterior cruzado INTRODUCTION. Usually, standard radiographs are used for postoperative quality follow-up after ACL reconstruction. However, with the use of hamstring grafts and bioabsorbable implants, accurate assessment of the tunnel and implant position is impossible. The graft and its relation […]
Artroplastia total primaria de rodilla para la fractura periarticular (inglés)
We present a series of 6 patients with periarticular fractures of the knee that were treated by primary total joint arthroplasty. These fractures around in 6 elderly women, three in the proximal tibia and three in the distal femoral. All the patients had osteoarthritis and osteopenia. In five patients, a hinged total knee arthroplasty was […]