Smartphone-Based Thermal Imaging: A New Modality for Tissue Temperature Measurement in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgeries.

Background: Smartphone-based thermal imaging (SBTI) allows noninvasive temperature measurements. Its validity compared with a conventional infrared probe temperature scanner (IPTS) has not been studied. This study compares temperature measurements between the 2 technologies on human participants.

Flexor tendon repair with a knotless, bidirectional barbed suture: an in vivo biomechanical analysis.

Purpose: To compare and analyze biomechanical properties and histological characteristics of flexor tendons either repaired by a 4-strand modified Kessler technique or using barbed suture with a knotless repair technique in an in vivo model.

Methods: A total of 25 chickens underwent surgical transection of the flexor digitorum profundus tendon followed by either a 4-strand Kessler repair or a knotless repair with barbed suture. Chickens were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 groups with various postoperative times to death.

Nonoperative treatment of occipital condyle fractures: an outcomes review of 32 fractures.

Study Design: A retrospective cohort study.

Objective: To evaluate the outcomes of patients with occipital condyle fractures (OCFs) treated nonoperatively and establish factors associated with neck disability.

Summary Of Background Data: The majority of OCFs are treated nonoperatively; however, few studies have reported long-term functional outcomes of these patients.

Smoking as a risk factor for short-term outcomes following primary total hip and total knee replacement in veterans.

Objective: To assess the effect of smoking on postoperative complications following elective primary total hip replacement (THR) or primary total knee replacement (TKR).

Methods: We used data from the national Veterans Affairs Surgical Quality Improvement Program to examine the association of smoking status at surgery with 30-day postoperative complication rates (including surgical site and other infections, pneumonia, stroke, myocardial infarction, mortality, and other complications) in veterans undergoing primary elective THR or TKR. Multilevel multivariable-adjusted logistic regression models, adjusted for age, race/ethnicity, work relative value units, American Society of Anesthesiology classification, and year of surgery, with additional adjustment for wound classification for surgical site infections, were used.

Cervical osteochondroma with postoperative recurrence: case report and review of the literature.

Introduction: Osteochondromas of the cervical spine are rare. We report an 8-year-old girl presenting with neck pain and a known familial predisposition for osteochondromas.

Case Report: Imaging revealed a presumed osteochondroma of the cervical spine located at C3.