Open fractures of the femur in children: analysis of various treatment methods.

Purpose: To describe the demographic and clinical characteristics of children who presented with open femur fractures.

Methods: A retrospective chart review of all children treated for open femur fractures at the McGill University Health Center between 1980 and 2009 was conducted. Thirty-seven patients (28 males and 9 females) were identified.

Muscle function and functional outcome following standard antegrade reamed intramedullary nailing of isolated femoral shaft fractures.

Objective: To evaluate the functional outcomes and long-term effects on muscle strength of femoral shaft fractures treated with intramedullary (IM) antegrade nailing using a standard piriformis start point.

Design: Retrospective Outcome Study.

Setting: Tertiary Level Teaching Hospital and Referral Centre for the Province of British Columbia.

Accuracy of cut-off acetabular reamers for minimally invasive THA.

Cut-off reamers have been introduced for minimally invasive hip replacement to make reamer insertion through the small incision easier. However, the accuracy of cut-off reamers in comparison to traditional hemispherical reamers has not been documented. We reamed four human cadaveric hips using a cut-off reamer and three hips using a standard reamer.

Trochanteric osteotomies in revision total hip arthroplasty: contemporary techniques and results.

Revision total hip arthroplasty (THA) presents several challenges to the orthopaedic surgeon and typically requires the use of a more extensile surgical approach. Osteotomy of the greater trochanter can be considered as the ultimate extensile exposure in revision THA. The methods of trochanteric osteotomy can be categorized into three types: the standard trochanteric osteotomy, the trochanteric slide, and the extended trochanteric osteotomy.