[The Apert Foot: Anatomical Changes, Classification, Thoughts on surgical Treatment].

Diagnosis and therapy of the Apert foot are scarcely described in extant literature. This article describes anatomical changes observed in 30 Apert feet. By analysis of X-rays and computed scans 5 types of bony Apert foot malformations were identified.

[Developments in the Diagnosis and Therapeutic Strategy of the Apert Hand].

The necessity for early surgical correction of Apert hands for the overall child development has been highlighted repeatedly in older literature. Nevertheless, uncertainties regarding the time and the scale of the initial surgical treatment still remain. While in former times there were no regular follow-ups after the syndactyly release, we now know that during growth bony changes will develop in the Apert hand requiring regular check-ups and, in some cases, revision surgeries.

[Possible Compartment Syndrome of the Hand in Patients with chronic post-traumatic Pain - 2 Case Reports].

The authors present two young patients with atypical development of painful post-traumatic hand muscle compartment syndrome. The first patient showed congenital hyperplasia of the thenar and first dorsal interosseous muscle and developed chronic exertional pain that only occurred after trauma and is indicative of compartment syndrome. The second patient developed compression of the second palmar interosseous muscle due to post-traumatic haematoma in the third interdigital space.

[Overlooked compartment syndrome of the hand after burn injury and known polytoxicomania].

A young man suffered the fatal combination of burn injuries and acute kidney failure caused by substantial rhabdomyolysis after lying on the floor in a somnolent condition for 12 h. This symptom constellation should always make physicians aware of a potential compartment syndrome.

[Three-year-old child with osteoid osteoma of the thumb: Diagnostic and therapeutic challenge].

A three-year-old girl experienced a fifteen-month odyssey before the surgical removal of an osteoid-osteoma at the distal phalanx of the thumb to relieve her pain. Osteoid-osteoma is a benign bone tumor rarely found in the hand and not yet described as occurring in a small child in extant literature. In one of the first x-ray examinations, a small foreign body was found in the soft tissues of the right thumb.