The most common type of proximal humerus fracture is surgical neck fracture. The purpose of this paper is to study the mechanical mechanism and the effect of bone degeneration on humeral surgical neck fractures. The right humerus finite element models were established based on CT computed tomography. The stress values and crack propagation process under an axial force were obtained. Three indexes (mechanical property, cortical bone thickness of diaphysis and cancellous bone volume fraction) in this article were used to describe bone degeneration. The results showed that the three models group with different index had the same conclusions. The calculation results showed that the higher the bone degeneration level, the shorter the fracture time and the lower the fracture stress. The crack initiated from the medial side of the humerus, then gradually grew toward lateral side along the both sides, and finally broke. The medial crack was flat and single like "a thin line", while the lateral fracture of the humerus was irregular and crushed into fragments. The medial humerus cracks were generated by tensile stress, while the lateral cracks were generated by compressive stress. The thickness of humerus diaphysis might be used as the index of fracture risk due to direct readability from clinical images and quantitative relation of fracture risk. This article would provide reference data for the treatment and prevention of humeral surgical neck fracture.
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Surg Radiol Anat
January 2025
Department of Neurosurgery, Saitama Sekishinkai Hospital, 2-37-20 Irumagawa, Sayama, Saitama, 350-1305, Japan.
Purpose: To describe a case of short common trunk of the occipital artery (OA) and ascending pharyngeal artery (APA) arising from the internal carotid artery (ICA).
Methods: A 36-year-old woman with a history of surgical resection of a right lateral ventricular meningioma and atheromatous plaque of the right ICA underwent cranial magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and MR angiography of the head and neck region with a 3-Tesla scanner.
Results: MR angiography of the neck region showed a small atheromatous plaque at the origin of the right ICA and an anomalous artery arising from the posteromedial aspect of the right ICA at the distal end of the carotid bulb.
Acta Orthop Traumatol Turc
December 2024
Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Izmir Katip Celebi University, Ataturk Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Türkiye.
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the locking femoral neck plate (LFNP) can be an alternative fixation method to the cannulated screws with a medial buttress plate. For this purpose, we compared biomechanically the LFNP and cannulated screws with or without a medial buttress plate in Pauwels type 3 femoral neck fractures.
Methods: A vertical fracture model was created at an 80-degree angle to the femoral neck in 28 synthetic bone models.
J Plast Surg Hand Surg
January 2025
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden.
Introduction: Health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) outcomes following maxillary reconstruction with the scapular osseous free flap (SOFF) are lacking. Material and Methods: To determine these outcomes, a study of patients who completed maxillary reconstruction with flap survival of the SOFF between 2016 and 2023 was conducted, using Face-Q Head and Neck Cancer Module (FACE-Q).
Results: Eligible patients had at least six months of follow-up.
Aesthet Surg J
January 2025
Plastic surgeon in private practice, Dallas, TX, USA.
Background: The description of the aesthetically ideal neck was first described by Ellenbogen and colleagues in 1980. Since then, visual and aesthetic goals of patients have evolved as new surgical techniques have been described.
Objectives: Our study aims to provide current objective data regarding the aesthetically ideal neck in a young Caucasian female and evaluate Ellenbogen's original criteria for a youthful neck in this specific population.
Head Neck
January 2025
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Background: Airway obstruction secondary to chyle leak is an exceptionally rare phenomenon. Here, we describe this complication in a patient with anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) undergoing consolidative surgery after BRAF-targeted therapy.
Methods: A 55-year-old man presented with a rapidly enlarging neck mass.
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