Radiotherapy for osteoarthritis-an analysis of 295 joints treated with a linear accelerator.

Purpose: Osteoarthritis is a common disease, with a prevalence of symptomatic disease of 8.9%. One treatment option is radiotherapy.

Re-irradiation for osteoarthritis-retrospective analysis of 217 joints.

Purpose: Osteoarthritis is a common disease with a prevalence of approximately 8.9% among the average population. One treatment option is low-dose radiotherapy.

Long-term follow-up of the modified Delorme procedure for rectal prolapse.

Hypothesis: The modified Delorme operation is a safe, effective, and durable treatment for complete rectal prolapse.

Design: Retrospective analysis of outcomes in adult patients undergoing the modified Delorme operation.

Setting: Community-based tertiary referral center with a 5-year general surgery residency program.

Clinical features of clostridial bacteremia: a review from a rural area.

Blood samples, which were obtained from patients who lived in a rural area with approximately 500 acute-care hospital beds, were cultured from 1990 through 1997. We retrospectively reviewed the blood cultures that yielded Clostridium species (74 [0.12%] of 63,296 cultures).