RESEARC H ARTIC L E Open AccessResidual malformations and leg lengthdiscrepancy after treatment of fibular hemimeliaDimosthenis A Alaseirlis1*, Anastasios V Korompilias2†, Alexandros E Beris2†and Panayotis N Soucacos3†AbstractBackground: Fibular hemimelia has been reported as
Ten fresh frozen, unpaired cadaveric knees having noevidence of pathology or damage were u tilized for thisstudy. The mean age o f the donors was 61.2 years (57to 64). Each cadaveric knee was fresh frozen at -20°Cand thawed overnight prior to dissection. Each knee wastransected[r]
osteoarthritis (OA).Methods: Questionnaire data and bilateral knee radiographs were obtained in 134 male floorlayers and 120 male graphic designers (referents). Weight-bearing radiographs in three views(postero-anterior, lateral and axial) were classified according to joi[r]
ness was placed around the subject's abdomen andattached to an over-head body-weight support system inorder to prevent falls. No support was provided by the sys-tem during the tests. Some subjects did, however, sit downin the harness between trials to rest their support l[r]
RESEA R C H ARTIC L E Open AccessLateral femoral traction pin entry: risk to thefemoral artery and other medial neurovascularstructuresJohn Y Kwon1*, Catherine E Johnson1, Paul Appleton2, Edward K Rodriguez2AbstractBackground: Femoral skeletal traction assists in the reduction <[r]
RESEARC H ARTIC LE Open AccessEvaluation of a pig femoral head osteonecrosismodelPing Zhang1,2, Yun Liang3, Harry Kim4, Hiroki Yokota1,2*AbstractBackground: A major cause of osteonecrosis of the femoral head is interruption of a blood supply to the proximalf[r]
RESEA R C H ARTIC L E Open AccessLateral femoral traction pin entry: risk to thefemoral artery and other medial neurovascularstructuresJohn Y Kwon1*, Catherine E Johnson1, Paul Appleton2, Edward K Rodriguez2AbstractBackground: Femoral skeletal traction assists in the reduction <[r]
improvements in the design of economical, stable andlow-mass exoskeletons for human walking augmentation.Another factor limiting today's exoskeletons and orthosesis the lack of direct information exchange between thehuman wearer's nervous system and the[r]
BioMed CentralPage 1 of 4(page number not for citation purposes)Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and ResearchOpen AccessCase reportDifficulty in diagnosing the pathological nature of an acute fracture of the clavicle: a case reportSheraz S Malik*1, Saiq[r]
Figure 6 Repre sentative section s of anterior tibialis muscles stained for RAGE (brown chromagen) and displayed at 20×.Theleftsetofimages shows sections from a left (L) ischemic hindlimb (top) and control right (R) limb (bottom) from a WT non-diabetic (NDM) mouse[r]
Posterior instrumentedfusion is indicated for Type IIfractures in the elderlyThe management of odontoid fractures in the elderly patient remains controver-sial. Ryan and Taylor [167] described 30 patients 60 years and older with Type IIodontoid fractures. The
ment connecting the medial tibia and femur and hasbeen investigated in greater detail than the dMCL. How-ever, there is discrepancy in the literature on thefemoral attachment of the sMCL. The dMCL has beendivided into two portions, the p[r]
Chapter 027. Aphasia, Memory Loss, and Other Focal Cerebral Disorders (Part 5) Conduction Aphasia Speech output is fluent but paraphasic, comprehension of spoken language is intact, and repetition is severely impaired. Naming and writing are also impaired. Reading aloud[r]
weakness (Chap. 382). Electrodiagnostic studies help to localize the disorder (Fig. 23-3). Proximal Weakness Myopathy often produces symmetric weakness of the pelvic or shoulder girdle muscles (Chap. 382). Diseases of the neuromuscular junction [such as myasthenia[r]
that, differently from the other two studies, the study ofKavanagh et al. [9], involved only male subjects. Last butnot least, in the latter studies different techniques havebeen adopted to account for subject anthropometry andwalking speed.The aim of this study is[r]
RESEARC H ARTIC LE Open AccessEvaluation of a pig femoral head osteonecrosismodelPing Zhang1,2, Yun Liang3, Harry Kim4, Hiroki Yokota1,2*AbstractBackground: A major cause of osteonecrosis of the femoral head is interruption of a blood supply to the proximalf[r]
tion of the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments.On clinical exam he had a free range of motion, noswelling and a slight valgus alignment. He had a positiveposterior sag at 90° of flexion and a reduced medial stepoff when compared t[r]
single tibial spine (Figure 4b) as opposed to usually twotibial spines in a healthy knee joint (Figure 4a).The patient was further treated conservativ ely and didwell at a reduced activity level at last follow up.DiscussionThere are only few reports about aplasia or hypoplasiaof the[r]
The following muscle groups were included in the investigation: (1) m. vastus later-alis, (2) m. vastus medialis (3) m. biceps femoris and (4) m. adductor longus. The surface EMG signal is quasi-stochastic (random), of Gauss distribution, the am-plitude valu[r]