Osteoporosis a disease for all; in Lebanon.

Osteoporosis is the most important metabolic disease leading to fracture and high mortality morbidity rates. With the increase of aging population, mainly in the developing work, it is estimated that the incidence of fracture will rise too. Osteoporosis known in the past to be a woman disease, it is now accepted that it affects man too.

Surgical treatment of traumatic lesions of the axillary nerve. A retrospective study of 33 cases.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the recovery of muscular strength after surgical intervention in axillary nerve injuries. Surgery was elected when no signs of recovery were noted after three months of conservative treatment. Between 1980 and 1996, 46 traumatic lesions of the axillary nerve were surgically treated.