Temporary immobilization methods for closed low-energy ankle fracture-dislocations: comparative analysis of a retrospective cohort.

Purpose: Ankle fracture-dislocations (AFD) often necessitate staged management involving temporary external fixation (EF) due to mechanical instability or blistering. However, limited literature exists on the optimal temporary immobilization method for low-energy closed AFD. This study compared baseline patient and fracture characteristics, along with clinical and radiological outcomes between AFD initially immobilized with EF versus splinting.

Multiligament knee injuries. Ten years' experience at a public university, level I Trauma Center.

Purpose: To describe our institutional experience and results in the surgical management of multiligament knee injuries (MLKI).

Materials And Methods: Retrospective series of MLKI consecutively operated on at a single, level I Trauma Center. Data on patients' baseline characteristics, injuries, treatments, and outcomes were recorded up to one-year follow-up.

Allografts and lateral extra-articular tenodesis for revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: enhanced rotational stability and improved functional outcomes.

Purpose: Multiple studies have shown higher failure rate and patient-reported outcomes to be significantly worse following revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstructive (ACLR) surgery, especially using allografts. One of the reasons being rotational instability. Because of this, augmentation with lateral extra-articular tenodesis (LET) is often considered.

Platelet-Rich Plasma Injections for Advanced Knee Osteoarthritis: A Prospective, Randomized, Double-Blinded Clinical Trial.

Background: Intra-articular injections of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) to treat symptoms of knee osteoarthritis (OA) have been successfully used in young patients and in the early stages of disease. No previous studies have analyzed outcomes of PRP injections during the late stages.

Hypothesis: PRP reduces pain and leads to a more effective and lasting functional recovery than corticosteroid with local anesthetic.

Necrotising fasciitis of the extremities: implementation of new management technologies.

Introduction: Necrotising fasciitis (NF) is potentially life-threatening soft-tissue infection. Early diagnosis and aggressive surgical debridement are critical to decrease mortality and morbidity. The impacts of new management technologies such as hydro-bisturi-assisted debridement (HAD) and negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) are not yet clear with respect to treatment of NF.

Pyrocarbon interposition (PyroDisk) implant for trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis: minimum 5-year follow-up.

Purpose: To report outcomes after a minimum of 5 years following pyrocarbon interposition (PyroDisk) trapeziometacarpal joint implant for osteoarthritis at a single center.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the midterm clinical and radiological outcomes of 19 patients who had a pyrocarbon interposition implant (PyroDisk; Integra Life Sciences, Plainsboro, NJ) arthroplasty. The rate and causes of repeat surgeries, revisions, and complications were examined.

Good outcome of interstitial lung disease in patients with scleroderma associated to anti-PM/Scl antibody.

Objective: The objective of this article was to establish the clinical course of interstitial lung disease (ILD) in scleroderma related to the presence of anti-PM/Scl antibody compared with anti-Scl-70 in a Spanish cohort. Furthermore, no study has thoroughly investigated the outcome of pulmonary function test in the first group of patients.

Methods: A total of 63 Spanish patients with scleroderma and ILD were selected in a retrospective observational study.

Revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using tibial or hamstring tendon allografts.

Purpose: To report outcomes of revision anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction using tibial or hamstring tendon allografts and to compare with another study using non-irradiated fresh-frozen bone-patellar tendon-bone allografts.

Methods: Records of 12 men and 7 women aged 18 to 53 (mean, 33) years who underwent revision ACL reconstructions using tibial tendon (n=17) or hamstring tendon (n=2) allografts were retrospectively reviewed. At the time of primary ACL reconstruction, hamstring autografts (n=8) and bonepatellar tendon-bone allografts (n=11) were used.

Medium-term outcome of mosaicplasty for grade III-IV cartilage defects of the knee.

Purpose: To evaluate the medium-term outcome of mosaicplasty for full-thickness cartilage defects of the knee joint in 17 patients.

Methods: Records of 12 men and 5 women aged 16 to 57 (mean, 35) years who underwent mosaicplasty for grade III/IV osteochondral defects in the lateral (n=14) or medial (n=3) femoral condyle were reviewed. 12 of the patients had undergone knee surgeries.

Percutaneous computed tomography-guided resection of non-spinal osteoid osteomas in 54 patients and review of the literature.

Background: Osteoid osteoma is a benign osteoblastic tumor with a nidus of <20 mm in maximum diameter. There are several treatment options, all of them aiming either to resect or to eliminate the nidus.

Purpose: To report and to describe the benefits of treating non-spinal osteoid osteoma by percutaneous computed tomography-guided resection, according to our experience.

Wrist synovial chondromatosis: case report and literature review.

Primary synovial chondromatosis is a proliferation of cartilaginous bodies within the synovial membrane, tendon sheath or bursa. It is a rare orthopaedic entity especially when it occurs in the distal radioulnar joint. We report a 27-year-old man with recurrent synovial chondromatosis, nine years after his first operation.