Idiopathic Scoliosis Prevalence Is 5 Times Less in Roma Than Greek Children and Adolescents.

Study Design: Serial screening of Roma children for idiopathic scoliosis.

Objective: To confirm or reject the observation that the prevalence of scoliosis is reduced in the Roma population and possibly to explain it.

Materials And Methods: The authors conducted serial screening for idiopathic scoliosis of 1,034 indigenous Roma children (542 boys and 492 girls), aged 4-18 years (857 children were aged 8-18 years) from 1997 to 2011.

Mid-term behaviour of cemented titanium stems: A seven to eleven year clinical.

A controversy exists regarding the results of cemented Ti-alloy femoral stems. Although most authors reported unfavourable results, there is no clear evidence of the exact reason for the increased failure rate. We studied 35 arthroplasties in 30 patients with a mean age at the time of surgery of 49.

Prognosis of dislocation after total hip arthroplasty.

One hundred sixty-one dislocations after cemented total hip arthroplasty, with a mean follow-up period of 8 years after dislocation, were reviewed with the aim of establishing the prognosis. There were 84% single and 16% recurrent dislocations. Closed reduction was successful in 81% of cases.