Olecranon mayo IIA fractures treated with transosseous high strength suture: A series of 29 cases.

Background: The aim of this study is to assess the causes and rates of re-operation in olecranon fractures in adults treated with transosseous suture.

Methods: We prospectively recruited 29 patients who were treated with this technique between 2010 and 2018. The type of suture used, tourniquet time and surgical time were analyzed for each one.

A life-threatening situation due to a spider bite : a non-infectious necrotizing fasciitis.

We present the case of a healthy patient who sustained a spiderbite in the elbow and developed a non-infectious necrotizing fasciitis in the affected limb. Female patient aged 24 pain reported a spiderbite received some 72 h previously in Mexico (the spider was identified as a brown recluse spider-Loxosceles reclusa). Under the suspected diagnosis of necrotizing fasciitis urgent surgery was indicated.