Dorsal nail plate versus percutaneous k-wire fixation in the treatment of displaced distal radius fractures.

Distal radius fractures are the most common fractures in the elderly, yet the treatment is controversial and still debated in the literature. Twenty four patients aged older than sixty with distal radial fractures were treated by dorsal nail plate. We compared them with twenty four similar matched patients treated by percutaneous Kirschner wiring surgical method.

Computed tomography-guided bupivacaine and corticosteroid injection for the treatment of symptomatic calcification in the great toe tendon.

Background: Calcification in the great toe tendon is a rare disorder that is characterized by the deposition of calcium on degenerative collagen fibrils.

Case Presentations: IN THIS REPORT, WE PRESENT TWO CASES OF CALCIFIC TENDONITIS: one in the adductor hallucis and the other in the flexor hallucis longus tendon. We preferred computed tomography-guided steroid injection in our cases because of pain unresponsive to conservative treatment.

Diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging versus computed tomography in stress fractures of the lumbar spine.

Aim: To compare the diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with computed tomography (CT) in stress fractures of the lumbar spine.

Materials And Methods: Radiological and clinical data from 57 adolescents and young adults with a diagnosis of stress injury of the lumbar spine were retrospectively reviewed. All cases had undergone both 1.

Giant sacral schwannoma: a case report and review of the literature.

Intraspinal schwannomas localized in the sacrum are relatively infrequent, accounting for 1-5% of all spinal axis schwannomas. They frequently grow to considerable size before detection; hence, the term giant sacral schwannoma. Sacral schwannomas arise from the sacral nerve roots.

The pedicle screw fixation with vertebroplasty augmentation in the surgical treatment of the severe osteoporotic spines.

Study Design: Retrospective clinical study.

Objective: To present the early clinical results of pedicle screw fixation augmented by vertebroplasty using polymethylmethacrylate in severely osteoporotic patients requiring spine surgery due to the neurologic deficit.

Summary Of Background Data: It is postulated that combining a formal vertebroplasty-that is, maximum filling of the trabecular space with polymethylmethacrylate-with pedicle screw placement in osteoporotic vertebrae could result in resistance to pullout forces significantly.