Using an ultraviolet cabinet improves compliance with the World Health Organization's hand hygiene recommendations by undergraduate medical students: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Appropriate hand hygiene (HH) is key to reducing healthcare-acquired infections. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends education and training to improve HH knowledge and compliance. Physicians are ranked among the worst of all healthcare workers for compliant handrubbing with its origin probably being the failure to learn this essential behavior during undergraduate medical studies.

Kuhlmann vascularized bone grafting for treatment of Kienböck's disease: a case report.

Treatment of Kienböck's disease has historically been determined by staging, ulnar variance, and presence or absence of arthritic changes. With the advent of newer techniques of vascularized bone grafting, the status of the cartilage shell of the lunate has become another factor that can influence the procedure performed. The purpose of this article is to describe the technique of Kuhlmann vascularized bone graft for Kienböck's disease.

Intraosseous ganglion cyst of the lunate: A case report.

Intraosseous ganglion cyst of the carpal bones represents a rare cause of wrist pain. We report a case of a 42 year-old, right-handed female, who presented with pain of the right wrist following a fall on the palm of the hand. Clinical study revealed a moderate swelling over the mid-section of the palmar face and pain through extreme ranges of motion of the wrist.

Tuberculous flexor tenosynovitis of the hand.

Tuberculosis is a major public health problem in developing countries. Flexor tenosynovitis of the fingers constitutes an exceptional tuberculosis localization (Gabl et al., 1997; Senda et al.

Pseudotumoral form of soft-tissue tuberculosis of the wrist.

Tuberculosis is a major public health problem in developing countries. Hand and wrist is a rare localization for extra-pulmonary tuberculosis, a pseudotumoral form of soft tissue tuberculosis of the wrist is exceptional. We report the case of a 45-year-old male presenting with a painful swelling of the dorsal aspect of the right wrist evolving for six months.

Teeth syndrome: diagnosis, complications and management.

Teeth syndrome or fight bite is a specific entity in hand surgery that is little known. It includes infectious complications of the hand following a fist against the teeth. Neglected or misdiagnosed this injury frequently leads to serious complications that could compromise the function of the hand.

Carpal tunnel syndrome caused by lipoma: a case report.

Lipoma is a relatively frequent, benign soft-tissue tumor rarely located in the hand. A lipoma of the hand causing a carpal tunnel syndrome by compression of the median nerve is exceptional. We report the case of a 70-year-old female presenting with a carpal tunnel syndrome.

[Lateral nail squamous cell carcinoma: case report].

Background: Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the lateral nail fold is rare, it has been suggested that trauma, roentgen radiation, arsenic exposition, dyskeratosis and infections (HPV) are risk factors for the development of these carcinoma. This tumour is mostly a slow growing and low grade malignancy which rarely metastasis. Early diagnosis by biopsy, especially in patients with predisposing factors, may lead to treatment and prevent the tumour from metastasizing.

Congenital cyanosis due to methemoglobin reductase deficiency: first reported Tunisian case.

During investigation of chronic cyanosis in a 25 year old male, after excluding pulmonary and cardiac causes, methemoglobinemia was suspected. Investigation of the activity of methemoglobin reductase clenched the diagnosis of homozygous cytochrome b5 reductase deficiency in a case of recessive congenital methemoglobin type I (absence of neurologic symptoms).