Severely comminuted intraarticular distal radius malunion can significantly affect a patient's quality of life. To date, there is no ideal solution. We propose customized distal radius prosthesis replacement as a treatment option.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to compare the postoperative outcomes of cortical screw and pedicle screw (PS) fixation techniques for posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF).
Method: We searched all comparative studies that compared postoperative outcomes of cortical screw and PS fixation techniques for lumbar spinal fusions from the PubMed and Scopus databases up to 2 October 2016.
Results: Eight of 1147 studies (N = 466 patients) were eligible: 5 back pain Visual Analog Scale (VAS); 4 leg pain VAS; 3 Oswestry Disability Index; 2 Japanese Orthopaedic Association scale; 5 intraoperative complications (dural tear and misplacement); 6 postoperative complications (hematoma, infection, adjacent segment disease and fracture); and 4 fusion rate studies were included.
Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc
June 2015
Purpose: To compare clinical outcomes after high-flex versus conventional total knee arthroplasty (TKA).
Methods: A systematic review and meta-regression were performed to compare post-operative outcomes between the two types of prostheses. Relevant randomized controlled trials were identified from MEDLINE and Scopus up to November, 2014.