[Is intraarticular administration of tranexamic acid efficient and safe as systemic administration in total knee arthroplasty? Single center, randomized, controlled trial].

Objectives: This study aims to compare the efficiency and safety of intraarticular and intravenous tranexamic acid administration in patients who were performed primary total knee arthroplasty.

Patients And Methods: This single center, randomized, controlled trial included 60 patients (8 males, 52 females; mean age 67.8 years; range 53 to 87 years) who were performed primary total knee arthroplasty by three surgeons due to a diagnosis of primary osteoarthritis between January 2015 and June 2015.

Is magnetic resonance imaging reliable for the evaluation of the ruptured or healed anterior cruciate ligament?

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the preferred imaging technique to evaluate the intact, ruptured or healed anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). However, its effectiveness in the diagnosis of chronic tears with synovialization has not been searched. During conservative treatment of torn ACL, there is a reparative process with proliferation of synovial scar tissue which may produce a bridge.

[Biomechanical comparison of two different wire stretching methods in the treatment of tibial plateau fractures with the Ilizarov echnique and the related clinical results].

Objectives: In this study, the divergent wire stretching method used to fix the fractured pieces in the Ilizarov technique is biomechanically compared with the olive wire fixation method.

Patients And Methods: Between 1999 and 2005, 36 tibial plateau fractures of 34 patients (27 males, 7 females; mean age 48.4; range 26 to 81 years) were treated with the Ilizarov technique.

The association of proximal femur geometry with hip fracture risk.

We aimed to discuss the risk assessments of patients with hip fractures due to the fall-related moderate or minimal trauma and compare them with non-fractured control patients by bone mineral density (BMD) and proximal femur geometric measurements to assess whether geometric measurements of femoral dimensions were associated with femoral strength and hip fracture risk. Forty-two osteoporotic patients with proximal femur fracture and 40 osteoporotic non-fractured age and gender-matched controls were included in the study. Lunar DXA was used for BMD measurements and proximal femur geometric measurements were performed manually on direct X-rays as hip axial length (HAL), femoral length (FL), and femoral neck width (FW).

Multicentric, synchronous giant-cell tumor of bone.

Multicentric giant cell tumor is a rare variant of giant cell tumor. In this case, we report a case of a 15-year-old female patient with synchronous type of multicentric giant cell tumor.