Publications by authors named "Joon Oh Lee"
Background: Recent medical advancements in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) can prevent joint damage and tendon involvement. The authors evaluated patterns of extensor tendon ruptures in RA patients that presented to hand surgeons over a recent five-year period.
Methods: Medical records and radiographs were retrospectively reviewed, and telephone interviews were conducted with 38 patients that had experienced extensor tendon ruptures in a rheumatoid hand during the study period and were operated on at one of five tertiary referral hospitals in South Korea.
Introduction: Patients with orthopaedic trauma experience substantial psychological and physical morbidities. The purpose of this study was to assess depressive symptoms in patients with a distal radius fracture, and to determine whether early use of the wrist after volar plating reduces depressive symptoms as compared with cast immobilisation during the early recovery period.
Materials And Methods: Twenty-six patients with a distal radius fracture, who underwent volar plating and were allowed immediate use of the wrist, and 24 patients treated by cast immobilisation for 6 weeks were prospectively compared with respect to depressive symptoms at week 0, and at 2, 6, 12 and 24 weeks after injury, using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D).
Purpose: To present the effectiveness of passive stretching as a treatment for camptodactyly, without any other form of physiotherapy or splinting.
Methods: From May 2003 to August 2008, 61 digits of 22 patients were treated conservatively using passive stretching exercises. All children were less than 3 years old and had no other anomalies.
Purpose: To assess age- and site-related bone mineral density (BMD) values in Korean female patients with a distal radius fracture, and to compare them with those of the community-based general Korean female population.
Methods: For this study, we recruited 54 consecutive Korean women, 50 to 79 years of age, with a distal radius fracture caused by minor trauma. We performed dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry scans at central sites: the lumbar spine, femoral neck, trochanter, and Ward's triangle, which is a triangular area within the femoral neck.
Wrist arthrodesis can obtain better appearance, hygiene, and ease of daily care, with some degree of functional improvement in patients with cerebral palsy with a severe wrist flexion deformity. Rigid fixation using a dorsal plate and screws has been accepted as a reliable technique, although hardware-related problems are relatively common. We describe a volar plate fixation technique for wrist arthodesis in cerebral palsy, which can allow concomitant flexor tendon release and avoid a prominent hardware and a cosmetically undesirable scar on the dorsum of the wrist.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudy Design: Radiologic evaluation of computed tomography (CT) scans using screw insertion simulation software.
Objective: To investigate the optimal entry point and trajectory of atlantooccipital transarticular screws.
Summary Of Background Data: To our knowledge, no large series focusing on the placement of atlantooccipital transarticular screws have been published.