Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation for osteoid osteoma under guidance of threedimensional fluoroscopy.

Purpose: To evaluate the outcome of percutaneous radiofrequency ablation under guidance of 3-dimensional fluoroscopy in 17 patients with osteoid osteoma.

Methods: Records of 11 male and 6 female consecutive patients aged 4 to 28 (mean, 13.8) years who underwent radiofrequency ablation under guidance of 3-dimensional fluoroscopy for osteoid osteoma and were followed up for a mean of 15.

A New Approach for the Correction of Prominent Ear Deformity: The Distally Based Perichondrio-Adipo-Dermal Flap Technique.

Background: Otoplasty techniques are generally divided into 2 categories as cartilage-cutting and cartilage-sparing. The cartilage-cutting techniques have been criticized because of their high risk of hematoma, skin necrosis, and ear deformity. As a result, suture-based cartilage-sparing methods like Mustardé and Furnas-type suture techniques have become increasingly popular.

Relationship between axillary nerve and percutaneously inserted proximal humeral locking plate: a cadaver study.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the axillary nerve and the percutaneously inserted proximal humeral locking plate and to evaluate the risk of axillary nerve injury during percutaneous plate insertion.

Methods: The study included 50 shoulders of 25 fresh frozen cadavers. A 5 cm incision was made from the anterolateral border of the acromion to the arm and a 5-hole 3.

Comparison of intramedullary nail and plate fixation in distal tibia diaphyseal fractures close to the mortise.

Background: In this study, we aimed to compare the functional and radiological results of intramedullary nailing and plate fixation techniques in the surgical treatment of distal tibia diaphyseal fractures close to the ankle joint.

Methods: Between 2005 and 2011, 55 patients (32 males, 23 females; mean age 42 years; range 15 to 72 years) who were treated with intramedullary nailing (21 patients) or plate fixation (34 patients) due to distal tibia diaphyseal fracture were included in the study. The average follow-up period was 27.

An unusual stress fracture in an archer with hypophosphatasia.

We report a 45-year-old male archer with stress fracture in his left ulna on the background of adult type of hypophosphatasia. The patient presented to several medical centers for pain around the left elbow and received medical treatment upon diagnosis of tenosynovitis. History of the patient revealed that he had had diagnosis of hypophosphatasia ten years ago and underwent percutaneous screwing for stress fracture on both of his femoral necks.