Outcomes of surgical management regarding acetabular fractures: cases from African countries.

Background: The management of acetabular fractures, which are severe injuries and often complex, is difficult and costly especially for poor and developing African countries.

Aim: To analyze and evaluate the functional and the radiological outcome of patients with acetabular fracture treated with open reduction and internal fixation.

Materials And Methods: It is a retrospective study on 24 patients treated with ORIF and followed up in the Trauma Orthopedic Surgery Department of the Military Hospital of Moulay Ismail of Meknès (MHMIM) between January 2014 and December 2019.

Percutaneous iliosacral screw fixation in unstable pelvic fractures.

Surgical treatment of unstable pelvic fractures Type C, has a vertical instability that is not controlled by traction and supine; therefore, orthopedic and functional treatments undertaken by default are sources of complications. The closed reduction with percutaneous sacroiliac fixation solves the problem of vertical instability; but at the cost of learning the method. Five patients with unstable pelvic fractures; were treated by percutaneous sacroiliac fixation.

[Pertrochanterian fracture revealing multiple myeloma: how is it treated?].

Skeletal involvement is the major clinical complication of multiple myelomas, resulting in pathological fractures. Proximal femoral fractures are very frequent during multiple myeloma evolution and they seriously compromise survival and quality of life of patients with cancer. Early surgical treatment allows mortality and morbidity improvement.

[A rare cause of talalgia].

Talalgie is one of the most common symptoms involving the foot. Intra-bone lipoma is one of the most rare bone tumors of the calcaneus. We report the case of a patient presenting with intermittent and spontaneous chronic heel pain.

[Centro-medullary nailing in the complex fractures of the upper end of the humerus: preliminary results in 6 cases].

Antegrade intramedullary nailing has become the gold standard to treat two-, three-, and four-part cephalo-tuberosity fractures. We report a retrospective study of 6 patients who have undergone centro-medullary nailing since January 2012. Mean follow-up was 12 months; the average age was 57 years.

[Anterior cruciate ligament mucoid cyst : about a case].

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) mucoid cysts are rare. They are often asymptomatic and unrecognized. Their clinical expression is polymorphic and MRI allows for an early diagnosis confirmed by histology.

[Anterior shoulder instabilities: about 73 cases].

Between 2005 and 2014, 73 patients (77 shoulders) underwent Latarjet procedure for anterior shoulder instability. This retrospective study aims to evaluate the clinical and radiographic results of this surgical technique. Surgical intervention was performed to treat 69 cases with recurrent dislocation, 5 cases with recurrent painful subluxation and 3 cases with painful shoulder.

Neglected bilateral rupture of the patellar tendon: A case report.

Simultaneous bilateral rupture of the patellar tendon (PT) is extremely rare and is generally associated to some chronic diseases. When the rupture becomes chronic, it is more difficult to repair that as it remained untreated. The diagnosis, which is clinical, is often delayed, guided by standard radiography and confirmed by ultrasound or MRI.

Fracture of the Fabella: An Uncommon Injury in Knee.

The fabella is a sesamoid bone that may contribute to the stabilization of the posterolateral knee corner and it can very occasionally act as a source of atypical and rare knee pain and functional impairment. Fracture of the fabella is a rare but important clinical entity which may be overlooked clinically and radiographically. However, it causes an intermittent mechanical pain of the knee and it can mistakenly harm another knee pathology like intra-articular loose body.

Carpal tunnel syndrome due to fibrolipomatous hamartoma of the median nerve.

Nervous lipofibromatous hamartoma is a rare tumor-like condition involving the peripheral nerves, whereby the epineurium and perineurium are enlarged and distorted by excess of fatty and fibrous tissues that infiltrate between and around nerve boundaries. The median nerve is much more likely to develop a hamartoma than other nerves with a predilection for the carpal tunnel. We present a case of carpal tunnel syndrome in an adult caused by fibrolipomatous hamartoma of the median nerve, successfully removed by excision of the fibrolipomatous tissue and decompression.

Chondroma in a sesamoid bone of the thumb: case report.

Sesamoid tumors of the hand are uncommon. We report a 50-year-old man presenting with a right thumb sesamoid chondroma. Surgical excision was successfully performed.