Medicine (Baltimore)
November 2024
Rationale: As a rare cause of femoral neck fracture, usually, hyperparathyroidism is missed diagnosed by orthopedist. Patient can present with various disappearance of clinical manifestations. Primary hyperparathyroidism in senile male population is commonly an asymptomatic disorder discovered incidentally through routine lab testing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Fibrous dysplasia is a congenital disorder in which normal bone is replaced by fibro-osseous tissue or irregular trabeculae of woven bone intermixed with mature collagenous tissue. A single or multiple bones are affected. This rare bone disorder has three clinical patterns including monostotic, polyostotic, and that associated with McCune-Albright syndrome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Fibrous dysplasia associated with aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC)-like changes in the right proximal femur has a low incidence. It is considered more difficult to make early diagnosis than for single fibrous dysplasia.
Case Summary: A 14-year-old woman was admitted because of persistent pain in the right hip and abnormal gait over the previous 2 mo.
To review the efficacy and complications of I seeds combined with percutaneous vertebroplasty for the treatment of metastatic spinal tumors. We searched PubMed/MEDLINE from its inception to November 2018 for articles on metastatic spinal tumors treated with I seeds combined with percutaneous vertebroplasty. A total of 273 articles were identified in PubMed/MEDLINE based on the search criteria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntra-site prophylactic vancomycin in spine surgery is an effective method of decreasing the incidence of postsurgical wound infection. However, there are differences in the prophylactic programs used for various spinal surgeries. Thus, this systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of using intra-wound vancomycin during spinal surgery and to explore the effects of dose-dependence and the method of administration in a subgroup analysis.
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