A randomized, parallel control and multicenter clinical trial of evidence-based traditional Chinese medicine massage treatment VS External Diclofenac Diethylamine Emulgel for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis.

Background: Both massage and topically administered NSAIDs are safe and effective treatments for knee osteoarthritis (KOA); however, different massage technique sects in China caused assessment difficulties for the treatment of KOA. In order to standardize the massage techniques and procedures, we organized multi-disciplinary experts in China to acquire an evidence-based traditional Chinese medicine massage treatment of knee osteoarthritis. The purposes of this study will be to provide clinicians a complementary and alternative therapy for patients and to evaluate the efficacy and safety of evidence-based traditional Chinese medicine massage treatment of KOA compared to External Diclofenac Diethylamine Emulgel.

Asymmetric Facet Joint Osteoarthritis and Its Relationships to Facet Orientation, Facet Tropism, and Ligamentum Flavum Thickening.

Study Design: The degrees of osteoarthritis of the left and right facet joints were evaluated by using computerized tomography among elderly patients with low back or leg pain.

Objective: To reveal the phenomenon of asymmetry regarding facet joint osteoarthritis (FJOA) in old patients and establish its relationships to spinal level, facet orientation, facet tropism and ligamentum flavum (LF) thickening.

Summary Of Background Data: There were few reports regarding left-right asymmetry among severity of FJOA and its relationships to spinal level, facet orientation, facet tropism, and LF thickening remained unclear.

[Normal pneumatization time of paranasal sinuses in 799 children: evaluation with magnetic resonance imaging].

Objective: To evaluate the onset of initial pneumatization of paranasal sinuses with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and provides references in the diagnosis and treatment of pediatric paranasal sinuses disease.

Methods: The MRI images of paranasal sinuses were retrospectively reviewed for 799 children of 0 month to 15 years old and the first pneumatization time of paranasal sinuses were analyzed.

Results: The ethmoidal sinuses was the first pneumatized in 100% (46/46) of newborn children.

[Neurologic complications in children with enterovirus 71-infected hand-foot-mouth disease : clinical features, MRI findings and follow-up study].

Objective: To explore the clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) characteristics and the follow-up outcomes of neurologic complications in children with enterovirus 71-infected hand-foot-mouth disease.

Methods: The clinical and MRI manifestations and follow-up outcomes in 35 children, at Second Affiliated Hospital, Wenzhou Medical College from August 2008 to November 2010, hospitalized with neurologic complications of enterovirus 71-infected hand-foot-mouth disease were retrospectively analyzed.

Results: Six children with aseptic meningitis presented the clinical symptoms and signs of meningitis.