Publications by authors named "Sivabalaganesh Amirthalingam"
Introduction: Osteoarthritis is now understood to be an aberrant remodeling of the joint organ caused by wear-and-tear mechanism and by a variety of inflammatory mediators. Subchondral cysts have been one of the important radiological features of knee osteoarthritis that is not well understood. We report a case of large subchondral lytic lesion which was initially thought to be a giant cell tumor and later was identified as subchondral cyst.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Lisfranc injury is relatively rare and is commonly missed at the initial presentation as these injuries are easily misdiagnosed as a foot sprain. We report a case of chronic foot pain following an injury which was later diagnosed to be a neglected 6 weeks old complex Lisfranc fracture dislocation.
Case Report: A 53-year-old man presented with chronic foot pain and swelling which was diagnosed to be a neglected 6-week-old homolateral type of Lisfranc injury (type A Hard castle and Meyerson).
Introduction: Isolated displaced fourth and fifth metacarpal base fracture without a carpometacarpal joint subluxation or carpal bone fracture by a punch injury is extremely rare. The site of the fracture in the metacarpal is determined by the type and direction of punch. These fractures usually occur as a result of misdirected blow or wrong punch on a hard surface with a clenched fist.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Patient presented with persistent shoulder pain 8 months following an injury which was diagnosed to be an old non-united missed acromion fracture. The difficulties in diagnosing such fracture, the functional and radiological outcome of surgical fixation of this type of missed acromion fracture with 6-month follow-up has been discussed in this case report.
Case Report: We report a case of 48-year-old male who presented to us with chronic shoulder pain following an injury which was later diagnosed to be a missed non-united acromion fracture.