The operational characteristics of ultrasonography for the diagnosis of plantar intermetatarsal neuroma.

A retrospective study was carried out on 48 patients to correlate preoperative ultrasound findings with postoperative histopathology findings and to assess the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive values, and negative predictive values of ultrasound in the diagnosis of Morton's interdigital neuroma. All case sheets of 48 patients operated on between 1997 and 2005 were reviewed in the medical record section of Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, Scotland, so that preoperative ultrasound reports were compared with the postoperative histopathological reports. A statistical analysis of the results was performed.

Trans-femoral amputation in elderly dysvascular patients: reliable results with a technique of myodesis.

The clinical and functional results of traditional techniques for trans-femoral amputation are often poor. The ISPO consensus conference on amputation surgery in 1990 at Glasgow recommended myodesis as an important integral part of surgical procedure and should be carried out as much as possible. Muscle stabilization provides a stable functional amputation stump.