Case Report: Atypical acute compartment syndrome of the forearm in a child following minor trauma with consecutive osteomyelitis.

Introduction: Forearm compartment syndrome (CS) in children is above all a clinical diagnosis whose main cause is traumatic. However, rarer causes such as infection can alter its clinical presentation.

Clinical Case: An 8-year-old boy has been seen in the emergency department complaining of severe forearm pain under a splint in a mild traumatic context.

Total knee arthroplasty after former knee fusion in a patient with Ehlers Danlos syndrome.

A 46-year-old female patient with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome had undergone fusion of her right knee 25 years before presentation. This markedly affected her quality of life. She underwent a two-stage conversion to a constrained rotating-hinge total knee arthroplasty.

In vitro biomechanical study of femoral torsion disorders: effect on moment arms of thigh muscles.

Background: Lower limb torsion disorders have been considered as a factor inducing gonarthrosis and the three-dimensional effect of the surgical correction is not well reported yet. This paper reports an in vitro study aiming at quantifying the relationships between experimental femoral torsion disorders and moment arms of thigh muscles.

Methods: Five unembalmed lower limbs were used and fixed on an experimental jig.

In vitro biomechanical study of femoral torsion disorders: effect on femoro-tibial kinematics.

Background: Gonarthrosis is a degenerative disease mainly found in elderly persons. Frontal plane deviations are known to induce lateral and medial gonarthrosis. Nevertheless, patients suffer from gonarthrosis without frontal deviations.

[Reconstruction of the knee anterior cruciate ligament: single or double bundle?].

Anatomical and biomechanical studies have shown that the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) consists of two distinct bundles, the anteromedial (AM) and posterolateral. Each bundle has its specific role during the motion of the knee. ACL reconstruction techniques have focused on the restauration of the anteroposterior stability by substituting the more isometric AM bundle.

[Management of the meniscal lesion].

About 1,5 million arthroscopies are each year performed in the world, 50 % for meniscal affections. The menisci participate in the femoro-tibial load transmission and in the joint shock absorption; they contribute to the knee stability and play a role in the joint lubrication. The menisci are therefore important structures, and, in the case of a lesion, surgical abstention or repair should be favoured.

[The Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the University Clinics of Brussels, Erasme Hospital].

On the occasion of the thirty years since its inauguration, the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of the University Hospital Erasme reviews the milestones of its development. Various original new techniques have been implemented: monitoring of implants using strain gauges, external fixation of the limbs, external minifixation, miniinvasive anterior approach in hip arthroplasty, knee ligamentoplasties, orthopaedic microsurgery and composite tissue allotransplantation. The care of aged patients takes place in close collaboration with the Department of Geriatrics.

In vitro biomechanical study of femoral torsion disorders: effect on tibial proximal epiphyseal cancellous bone deformation.

Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee is a degenerative disease mainly found in elderly population. Valgus deformity seems to be directly related to lateralised gonarthrosis. Contradictory outcomes of surgical series are published in the literature and report satisfactory and unsatisfactory long-term results.

Shoulder arthrodesis using combined internal and external fixation: a review of 9 cases.

A technique of shoulder arthrodesis is presented. Fixation of the arthrodesis combines scapulohumeral half-frame Hoffmann external fixation and internal fixation using a cancellous screw. Cancellous bone autografts are packed at the site of arthrodesis.

[Changes in knee kinematics and quadriceps and hamstrings moment arms after high valgus and varus tibial "dome" osteotomy: An in vitro study].

Purpose Of The Study: Analysis of the correction or over-correction of high valgus and varus tibial osteotomies is generally limited to the frontal plane. Most likely however, the deformation observed radiographically in the frontal plane is simply a one-dimensional expression of a more complex three-dimensional deformation. This might be one of the causes for certain failures after surgery and recurrent problems which are difficult to solve.