Percutaneous Cement Discoplasty for Degenerative Low Back Pain with Vacuum Phenomenon: A Multicentric Study with a Minimum of 2 Years of Follow-Up.

Background: To report clinical results after percutaneous cement discoplasty (PCD) in a multicentric case series with a minimum of 2 years of follow-up.

Methods: Between December 2014 and January 2019, 180 patients with low back pain and advanced degeneration were treated with percutaneous discoplasty in 2 centers. The inclusion criteria were as follows: patients 65 years or older, with mechanical low back pain with or without spinal stenosis, who did not respond to conservative management.

Clinical and radiological outcomes after stand-alone ALIF for single L5-S1 degenerative discopathy using a PEEK cage filled with hydroxyapatite nanoparticles without bone graft.

Objective: Recent improvements in cage designs with integral fixation and screw attachments have made stand-alone ALIF a viable option with several possible advantages. The aim of this study was to confirm the efficacy and safety of a PEEK cage filled with hydroxyapatite nanoparticles without adding a bone graft for stand-alone ALIF in the treatment of L5-S1 isolated degenerative disc discopathy (DDD).

Patients And Methods: Sixty-five patients who required surgery for DDD were evaluated.

[Segmental sternal dislocation in children. Apropos of a surgically treated case].

The authors report one operated case of traumatic sternal segmental dislocation in a child, and propose a mechanism for this uncommon lesion. A fourteen year old boy was admitted in emergency for anterior chest pain, occurring during an exercise in parallel bars without any fall. X ray showed traumatic dislocation of the upper sternal segment.

[Transperitoneal laparoscopic approach to the L5-S1 disk. Value of computed x-ray tomography].

Purpose Of The Study: The aim of this study was to determine the laparoscopic approach of L5-S1 disk, by preoperative C.T. evaluation.

[Lumbar-iliac fixation using the Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation in pelvic fractures. Apropos of 3 cases].

Purpose Of The Study: The authors propose the use of Cotrel-Dubousset instrumentation in pelvic ring fractures with posterior trans-sacral disruption. They report 3 cases, describe the operative procedure and analyse the advantages and inconveniences of this method.

Material: 3 patients, injured after hand-gliding fall, presented at their admission, a fracture of the pelvis with associated lesions: the first one had a pelvic ring fracture type C2 (according to TILE classification), several associated fractures (femur, ankle, wrist), and brain trauma.

[Caput valgum in children. Natural history and treatment of a series of 17 hips that reached skeletal maturation].

The growth disturbance of the superior end of the femur which is related to a superior lateral epiphysiodesis of the femoral neck is known as caput valgum (C.V.).

[Thromboembolic complications in pediatric orthopedics. Multicentric collection of 33 case reports].

We report 33 cases of venous thrombosis of the limb, in children aged 15 years or less (average age is 10 years old): 22 acute thrombophlebitis have been treated, 11 children shown post-phlebitic disease. The thrombus was found, most of the time, in the iliac and/or femoral vein. Acute complications were seen in 30% of our cases, and 25% treated children reviewed, had post-phlebitic sequelae.

[Treatment of acute pyogenic arthritis of large joints of the limbs. Apropos of 79 cases].

In reference to 79 cases of primary acute pyogenic arthritis involving large joints of the extremities, the authors analyze respectively the results of medical and surgical treatments. After tapping, the medical treatment combining antibiotics and cast immobilisation, has enabled recovery in more than one out of two cases with "restitutio ad integrum" of the joint. In the absence of rapid improvement, an arthrotomy, performed in 23 instances, has enabled, with irrigation and drainage of the joint, to control in a large number of cases, the infectious process.

A ten years follow-up of the results of surgery for Dupuytren's disease. A study of fifty-eight cases.

Fifty-eight patients (52 males and 6 females) operated on for Dupuytren contracture were examined by the same author with a more than ten year follow-up. At time of surgery the average was 55 years old. 69 hands (169 fingers) rated 4.

[Arthroscopy in the treatment of primary acute pyogenic arthritis of the knee in adults. Apropos of 12 cases].

Twelve arthroscopies have been performed in the treatment of acute septic arthritis of the knee. This gave an early visualisation of the cartilaginous and synovial lesions and treatment by lavage, drainage and irrigation of the joint. Using this technique, all the patients were cured of the infection and only one patient showed ultimate limitation of movement of the knee.