Functional and radiological outcome of non-operative treated clavicle fractures and its association with acromioclavicular joint arthrosis.

Background: Clavicle fractures are traditionally treated non-operatively. This study determines the functional outcome of midshaft clavicle fractures treated non-operatively, the factors influencing it, and the incidence of acromioclavicular joint (ACJ) arthrosis.

Methods: Patients with midshaft clavicular fractures treated non-operatively between 16 and 50 years old with no prior AC joint problems were assessed.

Survival analysis of osteosarcoma patients: A 15-year experience.

Introduction: Management of osteosarcoma has evolved considerably for the past two decades and there have been changes of practices especially pertaining to chemotherapy regime. This is a review of our cases in the past 15 years.

Method: This is a retrospective survival analysis study of 128 patients treated at University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) from 1997 to 2011.

C1-C2 fusion with absence of C1 posterior arch and presence of C2 high-riding vertebral artery: Is it possible?

The presence of anatomical anomalies such as absence of C1 posterior arch and presence of C2 high-riding vertebral artery may not allow a conventional C1-C2 fusion, and this patient will require occipitocervical fusion. A 62-year-old lady presented with cervical myelopathy. CT scan demonstrated an os odontoideum with C1-C2 dislocation.