Errors in Treatment of Fractures of Distal Femur by LISS Method (Less Invasive Stabilization System) - Single-centre Experience.

Background: LISS, the newest surgical method, makes it possible to completely regain knee function after knee fractures. We share our experience of the most frequently occurring errors during LISS-based treatment and ways of avoiding them.

Material And Methods: Our sample consisted of patients treated with the LISS method between 2007 and 2012 in the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the 4th Military Hospital in Wroclaw, Poland.

[Multifocal, bone manifestation of decompression sickness in a professional pilot: a case report].

Decompression sickness is a group of pathological processes occurring in the body, following its exposure to an excessive drop in atmospheric pressure. The paper presents a case of a 62-year-old patient with no substantial disease history, a long-standing professional military pilot who was diagnosed with multifocal, bone manifestation of decompression sickness during the diagnosis of right knee joint injury following a torsion injury. The case was presented to draw attention to the usefulness of occupational history in the process of diagnosing osteoarticular system diseases.

The reaction of the pelvis to the implantation of the acetabular component of the hip endoprosthesis--initial tests with the use of computerized tomography.

Among the population over the age of 65 years joint diseases constitute more than 50% of chronic diseases and most often apply to the hip. Endoprosthetics is one of the methods for treating this condition and is considered one of the best--clinically and economically--interventions of the modern medicine. However, it is not free of complications among which the loosening of the endoprosthesis is commonest.

[Acute knee hematoma--therapeutic management ].

Authors, on the base of own material, analyse a pathogenesis of the knee haematoma and ways and possibilities of the treatment in these cases. From 1991 to 2001 we performed 2950 knee arthroscopies. Knee haematoma was the main indication to perform arthroscopy in 382 patients.