Long-term outcomes after different types of Horne and Tanzer olecranon fractures.

Background: It is unclear whether the outcomes differ after different Horne and Tanzer types of olecranon fractures.

Materials And Methods: We evaluated 40 men and 55 women with isolated olecranon fractures, journals and radiographs from fracture event. The fractures were classified according to Horne and Tanzer.

Risk factors for low back pain and sciatica in elderly men-the MrOS Sweden study.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to identify whether factors beyond anatomical abnormalities are associated with low back pain (LBP) and LBP with sciatica (SCI) in older men.

Material And Methods: Mister Osteoporosis Sweden includes 3,014 men aged 69–81 years. They answered questionnaires on lifestyle and whether they had experienced LBP and SCI during the preceding 12 months.

Characteristics of Prevalent Vertebral Fractures Predict New Fractures in Elderly Men.

Background: Studies have shown that specific characteristics of prevalent vertebral fractures are associated with a markedly low bone mineral density. This study evaluates if these characteristics also predict subsequent fractures.

Methods: MrOS (Mister Osteoporosis) Sweden is a population-based, prospective observational study that includes 3014 community-living men who are sixty-nine to eighty-one years of age.

Low clinical relevance of a prevalent vertebral fracture in elderly men--the MrOs Sweden study.

Background Context: The epidemiology, the fracture pattern, and the clinical relevance of prevalent vertebral fractures in old men are debated wherefore we set out to clarify these issues.

Methods: Mister Osteoporosis (MrOs) Sweden is a population-based cohort of community-living men aged 69-81 years that includes 3,014 men. Out of these, 1,453 men underwent a lateral radiograph of the thoracic and lumbar spine of which 1,427 were readable and classified by a radiologist, that is the sample size in this study.

The prevalence and severity of low back pain and associated symptoms in 3,009 old men.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate the prevalence and severity of low back pain (LBP) and the influence of sciatica and neurological deficits in old men.

Material And Method: Mister osteoporosis Sweden includes 3,014 community-dwelling men aged 69-81 years. At study start 3,009 participants answered questions on LBP, low back pain and sciatica (LBP + SCI) or low back pain and sciatica with associated neurological deficits (LBP + SCI + NEU) during the preceding 12 months.

Body appearance and quality of life in adult patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis treated with a brace or under observation alone during adolescence.

Study Design: The Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) brace study (published in the JBJS-A, 1995) was comprised of patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis with moderate curve sizes (25°-35°). Forty observed and 37 braced patients (77% of the original group) attended a follow-up, a mean of 16 years after onset of maturity.

Objective: To analyze whether the subjectively evaluated present body appearance affects outcome as measured by quality of life in adult patients, previously treated by observation alone (nonbraced) or with a brace during adolescence.

Comminuted fractures of the radial head.

Background: There have been few reports on the long-term outcome of comminuted radial head fractures in adults.

Method: 10 women and 9 men with a mean age of 45 (21-65) years when they sustained a comminuted fracture of the radial head were re-evaluated after 15-25 years. 6 patients had been nonoperatively (NO) treated while 13 had had a radial head excision.

Measurement of vertebral rotation in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis with low-dose CT in prone position - method description and reliability analysis.

Background: To our knowledge there is no report in the literature on measurements of vertebral rotation with low-dose computed tomography (CT) in prone position.

Aims: To describe and test the reliability of this new method, compare it with other methods in use and evaluate the influence of body position on the degree of vertebral rotation measured by different radiological methods.

Study Design: Retrospective study.

Health-related quality of life in untreated versus brace-treated patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a long-term follow-up.

Study Design: The previous Scoliosis Research Society brace study (JBJS-A, 1995) included patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) with moderate curve sizes (25 degrees -35 degrees). The Swedish patients in this study were examined in a long-term follow-up.

Objective: The aim was to analyze and compare quality of life in adulthood between AIS patients who were only observed or treated with a brace during adolescence.

Long-term outcome of displaced radial neck fractures in adulthood: 16-21 year follow-up of 5 patients treated with radial head excision.

Background: There have been no reports on the long-term outcome of radial neck Mason type IIIb fractures in adults.

Methods: 3 women and 2 men, aged 46 (22-69) years when they sustained a radial neck Mason type IIIb fracture, were evaluated after an average of 18 (16-21) years. All had been treated with radial head excision.

A vertebral fracture in childhood is not a risk factor for disc degeneration but for Schmorl's nodes: a mean 40-year observational study.

Study Design: Observational cohort study.

Objective: To evaluate by MRI whether a vertebral fracture during childhood is a risk factor for degeneration of adjacent discs.

Summary Of Background Data: Several studies infer that trauma is a major cause of disc degeneration.

Nonoperatively treated burst fractures of the thoracic and lumbar spine in adults: a 23- to 41-year follow-up.

Background Context: Several studies report a favorable short-term outcome after nonoperatively treated two-column thoracic or lumbar burst fractures in patients without neurological deficits. Few reports have described the long-term clinical and radiological outcome after these fractures, and none have, to our knowledge, specifically evaluated the long-term outcome of the discs adjacent to the fractured vertebra, often damaged at injury and possibly at an increased risk of height reduction and degeneration with subsequent chronic back pain.

Purpose: To evaluate the long-term clinical and radiological outcome after nonoperatively treated thoracic or lumbar burst fractures in adults, with special attention to posttraumatic radiological disc height reduction.

A prospective study of brace treatment versus observation alone in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: a follow-up mean of 16 years after maturity.

Study Design: The Swedish patients included in the previous SRS brace study were invited to take part in a long-term follow-up.

Objective: To investigate the rate of scoliosis surgery and progression of curves from baseline as well as after maturity.

Summary Of Background Data: Brace treatment was shown to be superior to electrical muscle stimulation, as well as observation alone, in the original SRS brace study.

Primary nonoperative treatment of moderately displaced two-part fractures of the radial head.

Background: Moderately displaced two-fragment fractures of the radial head have been treated predominantly nonoperatively. Recently, however, open reduction and internal fixation has gradually gained interest, without clear evidence that initial nonoperative treatment leads to an unfavorable outcome. As a consequence, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the long-term outcome after the initial nonoperative treatment of this type of fracture.

Vertebral fractures in late adolescence: a 27 to 47-year follow-up.

The long-term outcome of thoracic and lumbar fractures in late adolescence is sparsely described and it is unclear whether a fractured vertebral body in these years, as in young children, can be resituated in height. The purpose of this study was to in late adolescence determine the incidence, the long-term outcome and the modelling capacity in fractures of the thoracic and lumbar region. The incidence of vertebral fractures 1950-1971 in individuals aged 16-18 years was through the radiological archives evaluated in a city cohort of 228,878 citizens, of whom 13,893 were aged 16-18.

Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty: New treatment strategies for fractures in the osteoporotic spine.

During the last decade, two new treatment modalities for osteoporotic vertebral fractures have gained more interest: percutaneous vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty. The techniques and the short-term clinical results and complications have been presented but there is no scientific evidence-based information regarding the efficacy of the procedures, such as randomized controlled trials (RCT). Instead, we have to rely on prospective and retrospective uncontrolled short-term observational studies and case-control studies.

[Treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression. Explosive interest for vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty].

During the last 15 years, two new treatment strategies have gained worldwide attention in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral fractures. The exponential increase in the use of percutaneous vertebro- or kyphoplasty has up to now not been supported by scientific sound evidence-based data. There exist no prospective randomised controlled trials (RCT) that support the efficacy of the treatments, not even adequate controlled studies.

Displaced Mason type I fractures of the radial head and neck in adults: a fifteen- to thirty-three-year follow-up study.

Undisplaced radial head and neck fractures are consistently described with no long-term deficits. The aim of this study was to evaluate specifically the long-term outcome of displaced Mason type I fractures, which have not previously described. Twenty women and twelve men, with a mean age of 46 years (range, 22-69 years) when they sustained a displaced Mason type I fracture, were reexamined at a mean of 21 years (range, 15-33 years) after injury.

Fractures of the radial head and neck treated with radial head excision.

Background: The reported long-term outcomes of the treatment of radial head and neck fractures with excision of the radial head have been mixed. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the long-term outcomes of primary or delayed radial head excision for the treatment of these fractures.

Methods: Sixty-one individuals (mean age, forty-four years) with thirty-nine Mason type-II, ten Mason type-III, and twelve Mason type-IV fractures were evaluated subjectively, objectively, and radiographically at a mean of eighteen years (range, eleven to thirty-three years) after treatment.

Uncomplicated Mason type-II and III fractures of the radial head and neck in adults. A long-term follow-up study.

Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence and the long-term results of closed uncomplicated Mason type-II and III fractures in a defined population of adults.

Methods: Seventy women and thirty men who were a mean of forty-seven years old when they sustained a fracture of the radial head or neck (a Mason type-II fracture in seventy-six patients and a Mason type-III fracture in twenty-four) were reexamined after a mean of nineteen years. Radiographic signs of degenerative changes of the elbow were recorded.

A modeling capacity of vertebral fractures exists during growth: an up-to-47-year follow-up.

Study Design: The study is an observational cohort study.

Objectives: To determine the incidence and the long-term outcome of thoracic or lumbar vertebral fractures in children.

Summary Of Background Data: The incidence of vertebral fractures in children is described as rare and the outcome as favorable.

Fracture of the radial head and neck of Mason types II and III during growth: a 14-25 year follow-up.

Twenty-four individuals, who were 16 years of age or younger when they sustained a fracture of the radial head or neck, were examined at a mean of 19 years (range 14-25 years) after injury. The 12 girls and 12 boys were a mean age of 11 years (range 5-16 years) when the fracture was sustained. Two were excluded due to late resection of the radial head following persisting pain.