Successful Boutonniere Reconstruction With Wide-Awake Local Anesthesia No Tourniquet.

Purpose: In this retrospective study, we evaluated the results of central slip reconstruction with a modified Snow's technique under wide-awake local anesthesia no tourniquet.

Methods: Between 2016 and 2019, 13 patients with boutonniere deformity were operated. All of the patients had boutonniere deformity with a passively correctable proximal interphalangeal joint.

Does the COVID-19 pandemic period itself increases early mortality rates of elderly patients with hip fractures in Turkey?

Hip fractures are common in elderly patients and prone to serious morbidity and mortality particularly when the treatment is delayed. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect Coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the early mortality rates of geriatric patients with hip fractures.281 patients who were followed and operated on with the diagnosis of proximal femur fracture were included in this retrospective study.