Assessment of Motor Dysfunction with Virtual Reality in Patients Undergoing [I]FP-CIT SPECT/CT Brain Imaging.

[I]FP-CIT SPECT has been valuable for distinguishing Parkinson disease (PD) from essential tremor. However, its performance for quantitative assessment of motor dysfunction has not been established. A virtual reality (VR) application was developed and compared with [I]FP-CIT SPECT/CT for detection of severity of motor dysfunction.

Thirty-Day Unplanned Readmission after Total Knee Arthroplasty at a Teaching Community Hospital: Rates, Reasons, and Risk Factors.

Unplanned readmission after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) has an increasing prevalence in the United States. Readmissions are now a metric for hospital quality of care, yet there are mixed results and variables associated with unplanned readmission. In this changing healthcare, it is critical for community healthcare institutions to identify risk factors for unplanned readmissions following TKA.

The use of massive bone allograft with intramedullary free fibular flap for limb salvage in a pediatric and adolescent population.

Background: Long segmental bony defects after tumor extirpation can pose difficult problems for the reconstructive surgeon. Capanna and colleagues have described a technique that places a free fibular flap within the intramedullary canal of an allograft for reconstruction of large intercalary bony defects. This article describes the authors' long-term follow-up with this technique for the treatment of large segmental bone defects in a pediatric population.

The use of vascularized grafts from the distal radius for the treatment of Preiser's disease.

Purpose: To examine the outcome of vascularized bone grafts (VBGs) used for the treatment of Preiser's disease.

Methods: Over a 10-year period (1993-2003) 8 pedicled VBGs were performed as the primary treatment for Preiser's disease. All patients had preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans that confirmed the diagnosis of avascular necrosis of the scaphoid.