CT evaluation of extra-articular glenoid neck fractures: does the glenoid medialize or does the scapula lateralize?

Objectives: Medial translation of the glenoid is frequently described as the main mode of displacement after glenoid neck fracture. Indeed, plain radiographs typically show the glenoid medialized relative to the scapular body. However, whether this truly represents medialization of the glenoid relative to the axial skeleton or lateralization of the scapular body remains unclear.

All-polyethylene and metal-backed tibial components are equivalent with BMI of less than 37.5.

Background: Modular, metal-backed tibial (MBT) components are associated with locking mechanism dysfunction, breakage, backside wear, and osteolysis, which compromise survivorship. All-polyethylene tibial (APT) components eliminate problems associated with MBTs, but, historically, APT utilization has generally been limited to older, less active patients. However, it is unclear whether APT utilization can be expanded to a nonselected patient population.

Characteristics of elderly patients admitted to an urban tertiary care hospital with osteoporotic fractures: correlations with risk factors, fracture type, gender and ethnicity.

Osteoporosis is a major public health problem in the United States of America and around the world, largely due to the morbidity and mortality associated with osteoporotic fractures. In the past decade, large epidemiologic studies have contributed greatly to our understanding of patients who fracture. However, most studies are limited to postmenopausal white women.

Pancreaticogastrostomy: a novel application after central pancreatectomy.

Background: Limited middle segment pancreatectomy, or central pancreatectomy, has been described for sparing normal pancreatic tissue during resection of benign neoplasms of the pancreatic neck. Anatomic reconstruction after central pancreatectomy has been reported in other series with creation of a Roux-en-Y loop of jejunum for a mucosa-to-mucosa pancreaticojejunostomy.

Study Design: Hospital charts and outpatient records were reviewed for 12 consecutive patients undergoing central pancreatectomy from August 1999 to November 2002.