SKINTED: A Rare Complication After Total Knee Arthroplasty.

Background: Surgery of the knee, injury to the infrapatellar branch of the saphenous nerve, traumatic eczematous dermatitis is a neuropathic dermatitis specific to total knee arthroplasty (TKA), occurring around the healed surgical scar area. Very few case reports exist in orthopaedic literature regarding this rare skin complication after TKA. We report a series of cases and estimated the incidence of this condition in our institute.

Bilateral Variability of the Quadriceps Angle (Q angle) in an Adult Indian Population.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to document and explain bilateral differences in the Q angle.

Materials And Methods: Two hundred limbs of healthy adult Indian volunteers were studied. The Q angle was measured using a goniometric method with the subjects supine, quadriceps relaxed and lower limbs in neutral rotation.

Reliability of inter-anterior superior iliac spinous distance as compared to foot length for stature estimation in South Indians.

Estimation of stature from isolated body parts is especially important to forensic scientists and anthropologists. The aims of this study were, to evaluate the accuracy of inter-anterior superior iliac spinous distance in determining stature of an individual as compared to foot length, and to note sex differences in the above mentioned parameters. One hundred normal healthy adult subjects from South India consisting of 50 males and 50 females were studied.