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Original Source: Late diagnosis of medial condyle fracture of the humerus with rotational displacement in a child.
For displaced medial condyle fractures in children, open reduction with internal fixation seems to be most popular treatment method. The major complication of this method is failure to make the proper early diagnosis. Corrective supracondylar humeral osteotomy has been preferred to open reduction and internal fixation for managing malunited fragments. We report a case of a child with nonunion of the medial condyle of the humerus who was subsequently treated successfully with open reduction and internal fixa...
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Myeloma is a malignant disease of the bone marrow. The features are an excess of abnormal malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow, lytic deposits on an X-ray and abnormal gammaglobulin in the seru...
Bone morphogenetic protein rhBMP
Bone morphogenetic protein 2 (rhBMP-2) is approved by the Food and Drug Administration for anterior lumbar interbody fusion and for acute open tibial fractures; rhBMP-7, on the other hand, is approved...
Despite the humorous name, hedgehog signalling cascades are central to embryonic development and has been implicated in the development of a number of diseases, including cancer. The downstream ca...
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Planmed Verity Extremity Scanner receives FDA clearance
Planmed Verity is designed to find subtle extremity fractures during the first visit to the clinic – the types of fractures that have most commonly been missed when only using 2D radiographs.
Hip Fractures on the Rise in the Extreme Elderly
Despite declining rates of osteoporotic hip fractures, the total number of these fractures is on the rise in the extreme elderly and is predicted to climb steeply. Medscape Medical News
Poorer bone health seen in black children with fractures
(HealthDay)—African-American children with forearm fractures are more likely to have vitamin D deficiency and lower bone mineral density than their peers without fractures, according to a study publ...
IOF report predicts dramatic rise in osteoporosis-related fractures in Brazil
A new Audit report on fragility fractures, issued today by the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF), predicts that Brazil will experience an explosion in the number of fragility fractures due t...
Ultrasound effective for visualizing fractures in children
Ultrasound is a safe and accurate alternative to X-ray for detecting metaphyseal forearm fractures in children, say researchers.
In Brazil number of hip fractures expected to increase 32 percent by 2050
(International Osteoporosis Foundation) A new Audit report on fragility fractures, issued today by the International Osteoporosis Foundation, predicts that Brazil will experience an explosion in the...
Planmed wins FDA nod for Planmed Verity Extremity Scanner
Planmed Oy has obtained 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Planmed Verity Extremity Scanner for providing fast 3D imaging of subtle extremity fractures that have b...
Fragility Fractures Require Automatic Patient Follow-up
Steps for managing and preventing new fractures in patients who have had a fracture have been suggested by an ASBMR task force. Medscape Medical News
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The impact of humorous media on attitudes toward persons with disabilities.
Purpose: To examine the relationship between disability-related humor and attitudes toward persons with disabilities in business students (i.e. "future employers"). Method: Students watched one of two...
CT scanning reduces the risk of missing a fracture of the thoracolumbar spine.
The aim of this study was first, to determine whether CT scans undertaken to identify serious injury to the viscera were of use in detecting clinically unrecognised fractures of the thoracolumbar vert...
Management of polytrauma patients is one the most difficult and challenging tasks for an orthopaedic surgeon, and it includes different aspects of intervention: emergent resuscitative care, early surg...
Coronal fractures of the medial femoral condyle: a series of 6 cases and review of literature.
Isolated coronal fracture of medial femoral condyle with intact lateral femoral condyle is extremely rare. We present our experience with such 6 cases of coronal fractures of medial femoral condyle. W...
Evaluation by ultrasound of traumatic rib fractures missed by radiography.
Rib fractures are the most common (25%) injuries resulting from blunt chest trauma, and are usually revealed on radiographs. Radiography sometimes cannot show fractures, especially those in costal car...
