Digital templating in hip hemiarthroplasty: Is it possible to accurately predict femoral head size from magnification alone?

Background: Templating is an integral part of pre-operative planning in elective hip arthroplasty to achieve favourable long-term outcomes, but its applications in trauma surgery remain limited. When templating from radiographs without a calibration marker, there is always an element of magnification which must be accounted for. Our aim was to establish our institute-specific magnification and to determine whether using this to predict femoral head size in hemiarthroplasty was more accurate than using set magnifications previously reported in the literature.

X-rays for Acute Knee Injuries: Pre- and Post- Pittsburgh Decision Rules Implementation. A District General Hospital Experience.

Background: We wanted to assess the number of unnecessary radiographs done for acute knee injury patients and the accuracy of the Pittsburgh decision rules.

Material And Methods: A retrospective observational study was done to look at the acute knee injury patients presented to a district general hospital Accident and Emergency Department from August 2011 till August 2013. We assessed the following parameters: sex, age, mechanism of injury, weight-bearing status and incidence of fractures in patients subjected to plain radiograph.

Atypical Chronic Ankle Instability in a Pediatric Population Secondary to Distal Fibula Avulsion Fracture Nonunion.

Chronic ankle instability is a disabling condition, often occurring as a result of traumatic ankle injury. A paucity of published data is available documenting chronic ankle instability in the pediatric population. Much of the data has been confined to the adult population.