The right hand of a 35-year-old man trapped in a roller machine and sustained an entire degloving injury of the right hand involving fingers, thumb and a part of palmar and dorsal surfaces of the hand. The denuded hand and fingers were covered with two anteriorly based random paired flaps, forming a hand sandwich, from the opposing surfaces of medial left arm and adjacent left lateral chest wall. The denuded thumb was covered with a separate pocket of paired random vis-à-vis flaps.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: osteotomy around the knee is one of the most common corrective surgeries for lower limb deformities. The exact relationship between the effects of these surgeries on the ankle joint is unclear.This study aimed to investigate the effect of HTO on the subtalar joint in patients with genu varum.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis case report describes a 74-year-old man with the rare injury of transscaphoid dorsal lunate dislocation (LD). He sustained a crushing injury with a huge amount of energy to his right wrist while working with a pressing machine. There were deep abrasions and areas of skin necrosis on the dorsum of the wrist.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKienböck disease after fracture-dislocations around the wrist is a rare occurrence. This case report presents a case of a 66-year-old man who developed Kienböck disease 18 months after his distal ulnar fracture. The patient developed negative ulnar variance after union of the distal ulnar fracture.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 60-year-old man presented with swelling, pain, and tenderness at the ulnar side of his left wrist. Imaging studies demonstrated an osseous lesion in the left hamate bone. Histopathology study of the lesion revealed that the lesion was an isolated osseous metastatic carcinoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis case report describes a 16-year-old female patient with a giant cell tumor in her right capitate bone. The tumor was removed by intralesional curettage. A high-speed burr was used to extend the margins of the curettage, and alcohol irrigation was used for adjuvant therapy.
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