Use of ring fixator in the management of degloving injuries of lower limb.

High-velocity trauma causes degloving injuries of extremities. Management depends upon the viability of the degloved flap. The degloved area must be covered either with flaps or with split skin grafts.

It is a glomus tumor! Not at all a paronychia.

We report an interesting case of chronic obscure pain over the toe tip. This earlier was misdiagnosed as chronic paronychia and operated twice. Obvious clinical appearance and high index of suspicion rendered it a glomus tumor on histopathology.

Comparison of Ponseti and Kite's method of treatment for idiopathic clubfoot.

Background: The manipulation and corrective cast application for club foot was known to be done by Kite's method. The Kite's method of manipulation (center of rotation of malaligned foot and fulcrum on cuboid) was modified by Ponseti (fulcrum on head of talus). Recently, Ponseti's method has gained popularity and vastly improved results are reported.

Giant malignant nerve sheath tumor of lumbosacral plexus with intraspinal extension in a child with neurofibromatosis type 1.

Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) are the leading cause of death in young adults and are one of the most frequent non-rhabdomyosarcomatous soft tissue tumors in pediatric age. These tumors usually occur in young adults from a previously recognized neurofibroma, neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), with a noted change in size and pain. This child reached the age of 10 without the presence of the more commonly seen manifestations of NF1.