Periprosthetic Tibial Fracture with Nonunion and Ascending Prosthetic Joint Infection: A Case Report of an Individual Treatment Strategy.

Introduction: Periprosthetic fractures are severe injuries that demand the surgeon's full expertise and special diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. A major complication is the occurrence of an infectious nonunion, including an ascending infection from the fracture site to the arthroplasty.

Case Report: This case report presents on a patient with a well-functioning revision total knee arthroplasty (TKA) who suffered a periprosthetic tibia fracture.

[What do orthopedic and trauma surgeons expect from radiologists when interpreting imaging of the elbow?].

Clinical Issue: The elbow is a complex joint with a multitude of acute and chronic pathologies. In addition to the clinical examination, radiological diagnostics play a decisive role in the further therapeutic management.

Diagnostic Work-up/performance: While acute traumatic injuries often present with obvious structural changes and the need for rapid treatment decisions, chronic processes can present with less evident alterations.

Pregnancy-associated osteoporosis with eight fractures in the vertebral column treated with kyphoplasty and bracing: a case report.

Pregnancy-associated osteoporosis is a rare condition, which imposes multiple symptoms in the musculoskeletal system. Common complaints announced by patients are severe pain in the lower back, hips and the joints of the lower extremities with a reduced and less mobility status in general. Most of the patients' problems occur in the last trimester of pregnancy or postpartum and are often not diagnosed as side effects of osteoporosis but as problems associated with pregnancy.