Patella Distal Pole Fracture Treated Using Ipsilateral Hamstring Autograft Augmentation and No Additional Hardware.

Patellar lower-pole fractures occur in relatively young patients after eccentric contraction of the quadriceps or direct trauma. Early diagnosis and adequate treatment lead to excellent outcomes and prevent tendon retraction and scarring. The aim of surgical treatment is to restore articular congruence and reestablish the extensor mechanism of the knee.

Patient-specific high-tibial osteotomy's 'cutting-guides' decrease operating time and the number of fluoroscopic images taken after a Brief Learning Curve.

Purpose: Patient-specific cutting guides (PSCGs) have been advocated to improve the accuracy of deformity correction in opening-wedge high-tibial osteotomies (HTO). It was hypothesized that PSCGs for HTO would have a short learning curve. Therefore, the goals of this study were to determine the surgeons learning curve for PSCGs used for opening-wedge HTO assessing: the operating time, surgeons comfort levels, number of fluoroscopic images, accuracy of post-operative limb alignment and functional outcomes.

PeroxiBase: a database for large-scale evolutionary analysis of peroxidases.

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