The Critical Masses: The Rise of Contemporary Populism and Its Relation to Solidarity, Systems, and Lifeworlds.

This paper examines the contemporary spread of populism across the globe. We argue that populist movements worldwide are responses to the colonization of lifeworlds by increasingly opaque knowledge and regulatory systems. The complexity of the systems that regulate and control the day-to-day life of individuals from afar makes these systems alien and incomprehensible, and consequently perceived as illogical and oppressive.

[Determination of skeletal age using the Oxford Score in children with epiphyseolysis of the femur head].

Pelvis radiographs of 47 children with slipped capital femoral epiphyses (SCFE) and 24 without a hip disorder were reviewed in a retrospective study by four readers to determine the skeletal age by the Oxford method. 72% of the children suffering from SCFE had a body weight above the standard level but a normal body height at the time of diagnosis. The mean chronologic age was 3 years higher than the skeletal age determined by the Oxford-score.

[Delayed results in function following funnel chest operation].

34 out of 106 patients with funnel chest treated by operation with an average follow-up of 18 years have been reviewed. In 30% of the patients investigated disturbance of the cardiorespratory system were found preoperatively. There was no significant change of the elektrocardigraphic and pulmonal function due to operation.

[Operative treatment of osteochondritis dissecans of the knee joint].

39 Patients out of 51 who have been operated on because of osteochondrosis dissecans of the knee-joint had a follow-up after a mean observation period of 8 years. In 17 patients the removal of the dissecate was the only operative procedure, in 11 patients a mouse-bed smoothing was simultaneously performed. The excision of the dissecate out of the mouse-bed with a simultaneous smoothing of the margin was performed in 11 cases.

[Arthrodesis of the knee joint (author's transl)].

Arthrodesis of the knee joint was performed in 75 patients. Solid fusion was achieved in 74 out of them. Average time for union was basically dependent upon type of pathological process and not upon fusion technique employed.