[Necrotizing myositis of the thigh : Cause or result of a systemic capillary leak syndrome?].

Infectious diseases of the musculoskeletal system are in trauma surgery sometimes the symptoms that most severely impair patients and are a challenge to surgeons, hospitals and the economy of the public healthcare system. The systemic capillary leak syndrome (SCLS) is a rare idiopathic syndrome that can provoke a fulminant life-threatening progress even if the primary infection is trivial. In addition to a clearly arranged description of the SCLS we report on an affected patient who developed a necrotizing myositis of the right thigh due to an unstable scar.

Patient-related outcome of unstable pelvic ring fractures stabilized with a minimal invasive screw-rod system.

Background: Clinical and radiological outcomes of operatively treated unstable pelvic ring fractures are well documented, whereas little is known about the patient's related outcome. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the patient-reported outcome after minimal invasive treatment of pelvic ring fractures using the SF-36 and EQ-5D medical outcome scores.

Methods: Patients with unstable pelvic ring fractures treated in our trauma department with a minimal invasive screw-rod system between 01/2004 and 12/2014 were included.