The impact of femoral bone quality on cementless total hip pre-operative templating.

Introduction: Accurate templating is an integral part of pre-operative planning for total hip arthroplasty (THA). Templating of cementless implant accuracy has been average. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of Dorr femoral classification on the accuracy of pre-operative digital templating.

Total Knee Arthroplasty for Valgus Deformity via a Lateral Approach: Clinical Results, Comparison to Medial Approach, and Review of Recent Literature.

Background: Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) for valgus deformity is a challenge. The standard medial parapatellar approach may not be universally useful for this. We have adopted the lateral approach to valgus knees.

Informal (Hallway) medical consultation in orthopedics-is it as common as it seems?

Introduction: Informal (hallway) medical consultation is an integral part of the physician's work. As musculoskeletal complaints are very common, orthopedic surgeons stand in the frontline of this practice. Many of these consultations are poorly, if at all, documented, thus imposing a potential medical danger to the patient and a medicolegal danger to the surgeon.

A Practical Tool for Surveillance of Surgical-Site Infections: A 5-Year Experience in Orthopedic Surgeries.

Continuous surveillance of surgical-site infection (SSI) is labor intensive. We developed a semiautomatic surveillance system partly assisted by surgeons. Most patients who developed postdischarge SSI were readmitted, which allowed us to limit postdischarge surveillance to this group.

Long Term Results of Liner Polyethylene Cementation Technique in Revision for Peri-acetabular Osteolysis.

Patients with peri-acetabular osteolysis around a well fixed cementless acetabular component may be treated with liner exchange. When the locking mechanism is unreliable or unavailable, cementing the liner into the fixed acetabular component is a feasible option. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical and radiographic long term results of this technique.