Use of osteogenic bone matrix in patients with traumatic long bone defects: An open label, single center study.

Background: Osteogenic Bone Matrix (Altis™ OBM) is a tissue-engineered, porcine-derived demineralized bone matrix prepared using a humanization processing technology that confers biocompatibility and improved osteoinductivity. The objective of this study was to determine the safety and efficacy of OBM in patients with traumatic long bone defects in an open-label, non-randomized single-center study.

Methods: Diagnosis and main criteria for inclusion were open long bone fractures graded as Gustilo-Anderson Grade II, IIIA or IIIB.

Integrative taxonomy reveals two new species of karst-dwelling Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the border region of Laos and Vietnam.

An integrative taxonomic analysis of the gekkonid lizard genus Hemiphyllodactylus was conducted using molecular, morphological, color pattern, and ecological data on a clade of 19 species, including two new species from karst landscapes in northern Laos and Vietnam. Hemiphyllodactylus houaphanensis sp. nov.

A comparison of clinical and radiographic outcomes between isolated total talus replacement and combined total talus replacement with total ankle arthroplasty or hindfoot arthrodesis.

Total talus replacement (TTR) is a viable surgical option in the setting of talar avascular necrosis and collapse, as well as a revision option for failed total ankle arthroplasty with talar implant subsidence. The purpose of the present study was to compare the clinical and radiographic outcomes following isolated TTR and TTR combined with total ankle arthroplasty or hindfoot arthrodesis. Patients who underwent TTR were retrospectively reviewed, as a multicenter consecutive case series.

The description of the first rock-dwelling species of butterfly lizard Cuvier, 1829 (Squamata, Agamidae) from the Khorat Plateau in northeastern Thailand.

A new species of rock-dwelling is described from the Khorat Plateau in northeastern Thailand. can be differentiated from all other sexual species of by a combination of having a black gular region with a wide medial yellow stripe, a yellow ventrum with black mottling, bright red to orange subcaudal coloration, having reduced to no expandable flanks, and having only one black transverse bar on the flanks. This is the first rocky habitat-adapted .