Publications by authors named "Lorenzo Coda Zabetta"
Background: Unstable ankle fractures are very frequent. Given the instability, they often require surgical treatment, but literature scarcely reports on the outcomes of their management.
Questions/purposes: For this systematic review we asked: (1) What are the outcomes in treatment of unstable ankle fractures? (2) What about complications of treatment in unstable fractures? (3) What factors influence the outcomes? (4) What about the role of the posterior malleolus?
Methods: The electronic databases PubMed, Scopus, and Embase were interrogated using the search terms "bimalleolar" or "trimalleolar" and "fracture".
Article Synopsis
- A 60-year-old man with severe gout hurt his right forearm and knee, which led him to the emergency room.*
- X-rays and scans showed he had a specific kind of knee fracture with a bone problem, but doctors made sure it wasn't a tumor by doing a biopsy.*
- The biopsy showed he had advanced gout in the bone, and since there was no big risk, they treated the fracture without surgery, highlighting the special case of gout in this unusual area.*
Purpose: A growing number of studies on animal models have demonstrated that some ocular diseases are the result of the interaction between hyalocytes and the ocular inflammatory setting. Endogenous and exogenous substances might alter the structure and behavior of hyalocytes that can contribute to the pathogenesis of some ocular diseases. Obtaining primary cultures of human hyalocytes could help understand the role of these cells in response to different treatments.
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