Popliteal Artery Pseudoaneurysm after Closing Wedge High Tibial Osteotomy.

Introduction: High tibial osteotomy (HTO) is an adequate procedure for the treatment of medial unicompartmental knee arthritis in the varus knee. It is technically demanding and has a significant complication rate. Although rare, vascular injury is potentially the most serious complication.

Painful Nonunion after Missed Juvenile Tillaux Fracture in an Athlete - Case Report and Description of a New Fixation Technique.

Introduction: The Tillaux fracture is a rare subtype of tibial physeal fracture that usually occurs in adolescents. There are only a few case series or reports published in the literature and, to our knowledge, this is the first time, a painful nonunion is reported after this type of fracture.

Case Report: A 13-year-old athlete presented to our orthopedic department because of persistent pain after an acute ankle injury 2months before.

Smoking and gastric cancer: systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies.

Objective: We conducted a systematic review of studies addressing the relation between cigarette smoking and gastric cancer to estimate the magnitude of the association for different levels of exposure and cancer locations.

Methods: Published cohort, case-cohort, and nested case-control studies were identified through PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science searches, from inception to July 2007. Relative risk (RR) estimates referring to the comparison of two categories of exposure (e.