Traumatic cervical spine injuries in a patient with pycnodysostosis.

Pycnodysostosis is a rare hereditary disease, characterized by systemic bone sclerosis. Susceptibility to long bone fractures is characteristic, whereas vertebral fractures are extremely rare. We report a case of a 21-year-old man with a past history of pycnodysostosis and spontaneous leg fractures who was admitted in hospital for a neck pain after a banal fall.

Technique and indications of elbow arthroscopy. A twelve-cases report.

Aim: Describe the technique of the elbow arthroscopy and discuss their indications through a series of 12 cases and a review of the literature.

Methods: We report a retrospective study of a short series of 12 cases of elbow arthroscopy performed on 4 years. The indications of this technique were loose bodies in 7 cases, parcellar displaced fracture of radial head in 3 cases, fracture of coronoid process in one case and osseous impingement in one case.

Intraligamentous ganglion cyst of the anterior cruciate ligament (about a case).

Unlabelled: UNKNO WLOGEMENT: Ganglion cysts have been reported in all joints, with varying frequency in location. A few cases have been described concerning ganglia of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) particularly intraligamentous cysts.

Aim: The aim of the study is to report specific particularities of intraligamentous ganglion cyst of the ACL.

[Diagnosis and treatment of Brodie's abcess in adults: about twenty cases].

Background: Brodie's abscess is a bone abscess described as a localized primary purulent collection with sclerotic wall. Since the first report of Sir Benjamin Brodie in 1832, many papers described different clinical and treatment aspects. Pathogeny and therapy still remain not clearly elucidated.

[Results of unicondylar femoral fractures: a review of 28 patients].

Background: Unicondylar femoral fractures are rare. They form a particular entity of the femoral lower extremity fractures. THE PURPOSE of this work was to evaluate the anatomical and functional results of unicondylar femoral fractures on pain, mobility, walking and stability of the knee.

[Fracture of the radial head: the role of excision].

Aim: We assessed retrospectively forty cases of radial head fractures treated by excision.

Methods: The series is composed of men in 60% of cases and women in 40% of cases. The age of patients ranged from 15 to 68 years with an average of 37 years.

[Arthroscopy of the shoulder. Technics and indications. About 64 cases].

Arthroscopic surgery replaced at present more and more conventional articular surgery because its anatomic character, its less morbidity and its more simple post-poerative care. After knee, the shoulder is considere as the articulation witch benefit of the progress of arthroscopic technics. Autors reported their experience in shoulder arthroscopy witch is introduced in the service since 1999.