Sonography-Guided Peripheral Nerve Blocks for Hand Surgery.

Short procedures constitute a large proportion of hand surgeries. Most of them are done as 1-day surgery. Regional anesthesia is considered the best option for these operations.

Thumb metacarpophalangeal joint palmar plate chronic avulsion in children: diagnosis and treatment.

Introduction: Thumb metacarpophalangeal joint instability can have a considerable functional impairment. Acute injuries are usually overlooked in children due to the high pain threshold and the presence of ligamentous laxity. Chronicity of the injury results in failure of conservative treatment.

Physeal sparing distal radio-ulnar joint ligament reconstruction in children.

Distal radio-ulnar joint (DRUJ) injuries are under-reported in the paediatric population. No single study has discussed methods of DRUJ reconstruction in immature patients with chronic instability. We present a physeal sparing ligamentoplasty for chronic DRUJ instability and describe the outcomes in two patients.

Cadaveric evaluation of the feasibility of glenohumeral joint denervation.

Purpose: To assess the feasibility of total shoulder denervation through two proposed incisions.

Methods: Total shoulder denervation was performed through an extended delta-pectoral approach and a transverse dorsal approach at the spine of the scapula. The study involved six cadavers.

Reliability of propeller flaps in post-traumatic reconstruction of wrist and hand defects.

Purpose: This is a purely observational study with a literature comparison to assess the effectiveness of radial and ulnar arteries propeller perforator-based flaps in post-traumatic soft tissue reconstruction and identify the risk factors for complications.

Methods: Sixteen patients were involved with post-traumatic wrist and hand soft tissue defects not exceeding 5 × 20 cm. Defects were covered with propeller radial and ulnar arteries perforator-based flaps.