Fractures of the Hamate Bone: A Review of Clinical Presentation, Diagnosis and Management in the United Kingdom.

Injury to the hamate can result in significant functional impairment and a negative impact on quality of life. These injuries, in general, occur very infrequently, and in the setting of an increasingly ageing population and more patients presenting post falls, clinicians are at risk of either misdiagnosing or failing to diagnose patients who sustain hamate fractures. This review finds that hamate fractures can occur through acute trauma or chronic repetitive stress.

Van Neck-Odelberg Disease: A Systematic Review of Literature and Case Presentation.

Van Neck-Odelberg disease (VND) is a term used to describe ischiopubic osteochondritis, which typically presents with atraumatic unilateral groin pain. We performed a systematic review of the existing literature on reported cases of VND to collate what is already known. We also present a new case of VND to add to the relatively small body of literature on the topic.

Type-H endothelial cell protein Clec14a orchestrates osteoblast activity during trabecular bone formation and patterning.

Type-H capillary endothelial cells control bone formation during embryogenesis and postnatal growth but few signalling mechanisms underpinning this influence have been characterised. Here, we identify a highly expressed type-H endothelial cell protein, Clec14a, and explore its role in coordinating osteoblast activity. Expression of Clec14a and its ligand, Mmrn2 are high in murine type-H endothelial cells but absent from osteoblasts.

#OrthoTwitter: social media as an educational tool.

Aims: The increased use of social media creates opportunity for new, effective methods of delivering medical and clinical education. Twitter is a popular social media platform where users can post frequent updates and create threads containing related content using hashtags. This study aims to investigate and analyse the type of content relating to orthopaedic surgery that is being posted on the platform of Twitter.