Posterior Malleolus Fracture Fixation In Lateral Decubitus Position: Surgical Technique and Results in 60 Patients.

The present study shows how posterior malleolus fractures (PMFs) and distal fibular fractures were fixed using the posterolateral approach with the patient in lateral decubitus position, not previously described in the literature. This technique has been used in 60 consecutive patients (42 women and 18 men; mean age 54.7; range 21-92 years), 33 of which presented as fracture dislocations from March, 2021 to December, 2023.

Supramalleolar osteotomies for ankle arthritis: a systematic review.

Introduction: We investigated the mid-term outcomes of supramalleolar osteotomies regarding "survivorship" [before ankle arthrodesis (AA) or total ankle replacement (TAR)], complication rate and adjuvant procedures required.

Material And Methods: PubMed, Cochrane and Trip Medical Database were searched from January 01, 2000. Studies reporting on SMOs for ankle arthritis, in minimum of 20 patients aged 17 or older, followed for a minimum of two years, were included.

Total hip arthroplasty for an intracapsular femoral neck fracture of high-femoral amputee.

Femoral neck fractures in transfemoral amputees are not common and management is associated with surgical technique and post-operative rehabilitation challenges. A 61-year-old Caucasian, male, above-knee amputee (following mangled extremity trauma 8 months before) who mobilized with a prosthesis presented to the emergency department with a right femoral neck fracture (Garden III). The patient underwent cementless total hip replacement (THR), using the lateral (Hardinge's) approach.