Landslides are one of the most extensive and destructive geological hazards on the globe. Tripura, a northeastern hilly state of India experiences landslides almost every year during monsoon season causing casualties and huge economic losses. Hence, it is required to assess the landslide susceptibility of the area that would support short- and long-term planning and mitigation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Damoh district, which is located in the central India and characterized by limestone, shales, and sandstone compact rock. The district has been facing groundwater development challenges and problems for several decades. To facilitate groundwater management, it is crucial to monitoring and planning based on geology, slope, relief, land use, geomorphology, and the types of the basaltic aquifer in the drought-groundwater deficit area.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Hand Surg Asian Pac Vol
August 2022
Desmoplastic fibromas of bone are extremely rare, slow growing, locally invasive, benign primary bone tumours, bearing close resemblance to the extra-abdominal desmoid tumours of soft tissue. They typically occur in patients around 30 years of age, and most commonly affect the mandible, pelvis and meta-diaphyseal region of long bones. En bloc or wide resection has typically been the treatment of choice to avoid recurrence, however, recent reports support curettage with bone grafting and adjuvant therapy to minimise functional loss.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Organophosphate compounds (OPC) cause most selfpoisoning deaths in India due to their easy availability and lack of stringent laws.
Aim: To evaluate the clinical profile and outcome of the patients presenting with OPC poisoning and to study the prognostic value of Peradeniya Organophosphorus Poisoning Scale (POPS) in predicting the clinical outcomes.
Material: This was a prospective study involving 100 patients of OPC poisoning admitted to Tata Main Hospital from June 2018 to May 2020 based on the inclusion criteria.
Introduction: Organophosphate compounds (OPC) cause most self-poisoning deaths in India due to their easy availability and lack of stringent laws.
Aim: To evaluate the clinical profile and outcome of the patients presenting with OPC poisoning and to study the prognostic value of Peradeniya Organophosphorus Poisoning Scale (POPS) in predicting the clinical outcomes.
Methods And Materials: This was a prospective study involving 100 patients of OPC poisoning admitted to Tata Main Hospital from June 2018 to May 2020 based on the inclusion criteria.
Introduction: Interlocking tibia nail fixation for tibia shaft fracture treatment is one of the most commonest procedures performed in orthopedic trauma practices. We report one such case of a rare complication of anterior tibial artery (ATA) pseudo-aneurysm caused by the proximal coronal locking bolt performed by an unusual entry from lateral to medial side during shaft of tibia fracture fixation.
Case Report: A 86- years old female sustained a road traffic accident and was diagnosed with a closed tibia shaft fracture of the right leg for which she underwent intramedullary interlocking nail IMIL nailing elsewhere.
J Pediatr Neurosci
November 2020
Tuberculosis (TB) is a major health problem in developing countries. Approximately 1 million children became ill with TB in year 2016. Neurotuberculosis is associated with high mortality and morbidity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFElastic stable intramedullary nails have been commonly used to treat unstable long bone fractures in children. The nail tip at the insertion site can cause problems. The nail tip should be of optimal length as a prominent nail tip or a short nail tip, or both, may cause different sets of problems.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: A heavily loaded subsidized government run OPD at tertiary care hospital normally caters 200-300 patients daily. Constant improvement in management of OPD through new policies are essential for better patient management and for proper utilization of skill, expertises and time of senior faculty. We designed a new concept of OPD TRIAGE for the same.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDehalococcoides mccartyi are obligate organohalide-respiring bacteria that play an important detoxifying role in the environment. They have small genomes (~1.4 Mb) with a core region interrupted by two high plasticity regions (HPRs) containing dozens of genes encoding reductive dehalogenases involved in organohalide respiration.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Spontaneous osteonecrosis of the knee affects the medial femoral condyle in patients above 55 years of age. Many reports and studies are available from western countries. But there is a gross paucity of literature on spontaneous osteonecrosis of the knee (SPONK) in the Indian subcontinent, either it is under-reported or detected at a later stage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCholesterol oxidase(ChOx) enzyme isolated from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PseA(ChOxP) and Rhodococcus erythropolis MTCC 3951(ChOxR) strains as well as a commercial variant produced by Streptomyces sp.(ChOxS) were immobilized on silane modified iron(II, III)oxide magnetic nanoparticles(MNP) by covalent coupling methods. The nanobiocatalysts in case of ChOxP, ChOxR and ChOxS, retained 71, 91 and 86% of cholesterol oxidase activity respectively, as compared to their soluble counterparts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExtradural spinal meningiomas are extremely rare, more so in the cervical region. A purely extradural location as reported in this paper is quite exceptional. The authors report a case of extradural meningioma in a 50-year-old male located in the cervical spine that was surgically treated with the provisional diagnosis of a neurofibroma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWith only 33 cases reported so far, a purely extra-axial position of medulloblastoma at cerebellopontine (CP) angle is quite exceptional. We report a case of extra-axial medulloblastoma in a 15-year-old male child located in the CP angle that was surgically treated with a provisional diagnosis of schwannoma. Histopathological diagnosis of medulloblastoma was made with the routine hematoxylin and eosin stain and immunohistochemical markers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Orthop Surg (Hong Kong)
January 2017
Background: We hypothesized that leucocyte esterase strip test can aid in diagnosing septic arthritis in native synovial fluid because leucocyte esterase concentrations would be elevated at the infection site because of secretion by recruited neutrophils.
Method: The cohort included 27 patients (suspected septic arthritis and normal subjects). A standard chemical test strip (graded as negative, trace, +, ++ or +++) was used to detect the presence of leucocyte esterase.
Unlabelled: Glomus tumor, originally known as an angioneuromyoma, is a benign neoplasm arising from specialized structures called glomus bodies, involved in thermoregulation. Although it has been reported at a number of sites in the body, this rare tumor is most commonly seen in the subungual areas of the digits of the hand. Only a handful of lesions have been reported in the toes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Orthop (Belle Mead NJ)
August 2015
We describe a case of xanthogranulomatous osteomyelitis (XO) of the proximal femur in a 65-year-old woman who presented with pain of 6 months' duration in the right hip. Plain radiographs showed a lytic well-defined lesion in the right peritrochanteric region suggestive of a benign neoplastic etiology. The gross and histopathologic examination of the curettage specimen was consistent with XO.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSubacute posttraumatic ascending myelopathy is a rare disorder, unrelated to syrinx formation or mechanical instability, which may gradually emerge within the first 1-2 weeks after a spinal cord injury and may lead to diagnostic and prognostic dilemmas. We present a case of 24-year-old female with unstable wedge compression fracture of L1 vertebrae with signal changes in the upper lumbar cord causing complete paraplegia below D9 with bladder and bowel involvement. In the subsequent week, she developed a delayed progressively increasing neurological deficit with cord signal abnormality on MRI extending cephalad from the injury site to the upper dorsal cord.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Clin Orthop Trauma
December 2014
A 40-year-old woman from India presented with a mass in the front of her left knee which had been present for 8 months. Local examination revealed a globular mass of approximate size 5 cm × 4 cm × 4 cm in front of the lower pole of left patella. The patient was investigated with imaging studies and laboratory tests.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the clinical and ultrasonographic changes in the morphology and vascularity of the common extensor tendon after injecting platelet-rich plasma (PRP) or corticosteroid (CS) for recalcitrant lateral epicondylitis (LE).
Methods: 30 patients aged 18 to 60 years with recalcitrant (>6 months) LE not responsive to oral medication or non-invasive treatment were randomised to receive PRP (n=15) or CS (n=15) injection. Patients were assessed using the visual analogue scale (VAS) for pain, Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand Scale (DASH) score, Oxford Elbow Score, modified Mayo Clinic performance index for the elbow (modified Mayo score), and hand grip strength.
Study Design: Retrospective and prospective case series.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess the results of reconstruction of anterior column, fusion and complications related to cages.
Overview Of Literature: Literature shows that corpectomy has become a common surgical procedure for spinal infection, trauma, deformity, instability and metastasis.