Publications by authors named "Rya Boscariol"
Retrograde intramedullary nailing is a largely successful technique for the treatment of femoral shaft fractures, although reports of knee pain after this procedure are not uncommon. Here we describe the case of a patient who developed a polyp-like fibrotic lesion of the intercondylar notch nearly 2 years after retrograde intramedullary nailing of a femoral shaft fracture as discovered by arthroscopic evaluation. This lesion caused pain and compromised our patient's function; however, both of these measures were subjectively improved after the debridement of the lesion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: In patients with unicompartmental medial knee arthritis, medial opening wedge high tibial osteotomy is used to shift the mechanical weightbearing line laterally to reduce pain and improve function. There have been concerns that opening wedge high tibial osteotomy is associated with a reduction of patellar height and increase in the sagittal posterior tibial slope, both of which can adversely affect the final result.
Hypothesis: A more distal oblique osteotomy at the level of insertion of the patellar tendon should decrease these effects when compared with a horizontal osteotomy made proximal to the patellar tendon insertion.
Background: Previous postoperative investigations report morning peaks in analgesic administration. However, few studies have examined diurnal variation of both pain and analgesic consumption and little is known about dynamic pain in this context.
Methods: The diurnal pattern of postoperative pain is described using pain intensity and analgesic consumption data from a recently published hysterectomy trial.