Publications by authors named "Metin Loetfi Baydar"
Purpose: This study aimed to assess the diagnostic accuracy of smartphone photographs, taken at the emergency department (ED) and shared with hand surgeons, in identifying critical circulatory issues and neurovascular bundle injury, as well as tendon and bone injuries.
Methods: The photographs of hand injuries of 50 patients who were referred to our ED between January 2020 and January 2022 were used to design a questionnaire. This questionnaire, including closed-ended questions about the injured structures, was shared with a group of hand surgeons via a WhatsApp group in Turkey.
Objectives: The purpose of the study was to compare clinical and radiological outcomes of autografts obtained from the iliac crest (IC) and distal radius (DR) and to evaluate their superiority for surgical treatment of solitary finger enchondromas.
Methods: Twenty-five patients for whom curettage and autografting were carried out for finger enchondroma were retrospectively analyzed. DR autograft was used in eight patients and IC autograft was used in 17 patients.
Purpose: The aim of this retrospective study was to investigate the effect of subungual glomus tumour size and localization in the germinal or sterile matrix on tumour recurrence and aesthetic outcomes.
Patients And Methods: From 35 patients who underwent surgery for a subungual glomus tumour between February 2013 and February 2020, 26 patients - 17 women and 9 men - with 27 subungual glomus tumours fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The average age was 37.
Introduction: We evaluated the clinical and radiological outcomes of capitellar fractures treated with modified screw insertion (inserting the first fixation screw anteroposteriorly and the second screw posteroanteriorly), a technique that can be applied with a minimally invasive lateral elbow approach.
Materials And Methods: Twenty-one isolated capitellum fractures that were surgically treated were included in the study. Fixation was achieved with two headless cannulated compression screws placed in anteroposterior and posteroanterior order using the modified lateral elbow approach.
Objectives: This study aims to compare the usefulness of two systems in classifying thumb duplication cases and give some examples of the cases we believe that are unclassifiable.
Patients And Methods: Between January 2011 and January 2018, a total of 50 patients (29 males, 21 females; median age: 46.4±68.
Objectives: In this study, we aimed to describe a new hook plate technique (HPT) and to compare our results with the conventional extension block technique (EBT) with a Kirschner wire (K-wire) for bony mallet finger treatment.
Patients And Methods: Between April 2015 and January 2018, a total of 19 patients including 10 who were treated with EBT (7 males, 3 females; mean age: 30.1±7.
Article Synopsis
- This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of three fixation techniques (plate-screw, tension band, intramedullary nail) for olecranon osteotomy in patients with intercondylar fractures of the distal humerus.
- A total of 37 out of 52 patients were included, with various functional evaluations conducted including joint motion, pain assessment, and strength measurements over an average follow-up of 44 months.
- Results indicated no significant differences in clinical outcomes among the fixation methods, but grip strength in the treated arm was significantly lower than in the unaffected arm.
Objectives: In this study, we aimed to compare clinical and radiographic outcomes of retrograde intramedullary Kirschner-wire (K-wire) fixation with those of plate-screw (PS) fixation.
Patients And Methods: A total of 98 metacarpal shaft fractures in 75 patients (65 males, 10 females; mean age: 31.2±10.
Objectives: Wide-awake anesthesia is a type of local anesthesia consisting of a combined application of lidocaine, epinephrine, and bicarbonate and has a wide potential in hand surgery as it offers the advantage of being applied without sedation and without using a tourniquet. In light of recent studies, its use has increased with the disappearance of the belief among surgeons that epinephrine can cause circulatory disturbance in fingers.
Methods: Patients with finger pathologies who were operated upon at the Baltalimani Bone Diseases Teaching and Research Hospital between January 2015 and February 2016 were divided into two groups according to anesthesia type: wide-awake anesthesia and axillary block anesthesia, with 52 patients in each group.
Objective: To present the results of our cases of Dupuytren's disease treated with regional selective fasciectomy in light of the literature.
Methods: Patients diagnosed with Dupuytren's contracture and surgically treated with regional selective fasciectomy at our institution with adequate follow-up data were included in the study. All patients were routinely followed after surgery to assess results and complications.