The association between intracompartmental pressure and skeletal muscle recovery after tibial diaphyseal fractures: an ambispective cohort study.

Background: Due to the special anatomy of the lower leg, tibial diaphyseal fracture causes increased intracompartmental pressure (ICP). Not only is this increased ICP the manifestation of skeletal muscle injury, but it induces further deterioration of the injury. The aim of this study was to assess the association between short-term ICP elevation and long-term skeletal muscle recovery after severe limb trauma.

Difficult diagnosis and genetic analysis of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva: a case report.

Background: Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), an ultra-rare and disabling genetic disorder of skeletal malformations and progressive heterotopic ossification, is caused by heterozygous activating mutations in activin A receptor, type I/activin-like kinase 2 (ACVR1/ALK2). The rarity of the disease makes it common to make a misdiagnosis and cause mismanagement.

Case Presentation: We reported a case of a sixteen-year-old male patient who had suffered from pain and swelling in the biopsy site for two months.

Comparison of 2 available methods with Bland-Altman analysis for measuring intracompartmental pressure.

Background: Acute compartment syndrome (ACS) is the result of increased intracompartmental pressure (ICP), and to avoid a delay in diagnosis requires ICP measurement. This study was designed to compare 2 available methods with Bland-Altman analysis for measuring ICP in experimental animal models, healthy volunteers, and patients with suspected ACS to evaluate their agreement and interchangeability.

Methods: In 20 New Zealand White rabbits, we inflated a tourniquet to stop arterial blood flow to establish ACS rabbit models, of which ICP was measured and recorded by the Whitesides apparatus and the invasive arterial blood pressure monitor system (IABPMS) before and after modeling.

[APPLICATION OF COMPUTER-ASSISTED SURGICAL PLANNING IN SURGICAL TREATMENT OF ANKLE FRACTURES].

Objective: To explore the clinical value of computer-assisted surgical planning in the treatment of ankle fractures.

Methods: Between January 2012 and January 2014, open reduction and internal fixation were performed on 42 patients with ankle fractures. There were 22 males and 20 females with an average age of 52 years (range, 19-72 years).

Open reduction and internal fixation with conventional plate via L-shaped lateral approach versus internal fixation with percutaneous plate via a sinus tarsi approach for calcaneal fractures - a randomized controlled trial.

Objective: We aimed to compare the clinical outcomes of intra-articular calcaneus fractures treated with open reduction and internal fixation with conventional plate via L-shaped lateral approach (routine treatment) versus those with percutaneous plate via a sinus tarsi approach (minimally invasive treatment).

Methods: One hundred and seventeen displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures in 108 patients from January 2007 and September 2010 were randomly allocated to receive routine treatment (49 patients) or minimally invasive treatment (59 patients). Operative time, preoperative and postoperative calcaneal height, width, length, Böhlers angle, Gissanes angle, and incision healing were recorded.

A minimally invasive sinus tarsi approach with percutaneous plate and screw fixation for intra-articular calcaneal fractures.

According to characteristic of anatomical structure of calcaneus and sinus tarsi approach, the minimally invasive plate for treatment of displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures had been designed. Here we aimed to review the effect of this treatment. Forty intra-articular calcaneal fractures in 38 patients from September 2006 to September 2008 were treated with percutaneous plate via sinus tarsi approach under the monitoring of C-shaped arms.

Analysis of trabecular distribution of the proximal femur in patients with fragility fractures.

Background: Multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) was used in order to assess the trabecular distribution of proximal femur and its relationship with hip fragility fractures.

Methods: A total of 99 elderly women were scanned by MDCT including: 27 trochanteric hip fractures (group A), 40 femoral neck fractures (group B), and 32 non-fractures (group C). A mid-coronal MPR image of the proximal femur was reconstructed for every patient by e-Film95 software.

[Application of minimally invasive locking compression plate in treatment of proximal humeral fractures].

Objective: To evaluate the clinical and radiological outcomes of minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis (MIPO) with locking compression plate (LCP) in the treatment of proximal humeral shaft fracture.

Methods: From July 2004 to April 2008, 26 patients with displaced fractures of the proximal humeral shaft were recruited, including 8 males and 18 females. Age of patients averaged 66 years old (range, 34-82 years old).