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(IKHOAM), a Nigerian culture and environment-friendlyclinical tool was developed at the University of Ibadan,Nigeria for measuring end results of care in patients withknee or Hip OA [1]. The tool was made specific to Knee/Hip joints because among Nigerian patients, the knee isth[r]

25. Radbruch L, Loick G, Kiencke P, Lindena G, Sabatowski R, Grond S, et al:Validation of the German Version of the Brief Pain Inventory. J PainSymptom Manage 1999, 18:180-187.26. Cleeland Charles S: The Brief Pain Inventory. User Guide Houston, Texas; 2009.27. Kirschner S, Walther M, Bohm D, Matzer[r]

2009. Since June 2009, although the State Bank adjust to rise gradually, but low growth.Stage 3, Growth rate of the average exchange rate to the interbank was still not much and until November 19, 2009 by 0,3% in comparison with in the end of 2008.Stage 4, Since Nov 26th, SB’s[r]

Group 1 patient who had undergone bilateral stagedtotal hip replacements had persistent pain in one hipand subsequently underwent a revision procedure twelvemonths postoperatively at a different hospital. Therewere no significant differences in wound or urinary tractinfections, leg length dis[r]

be easy with low risk of additional damage to the bony substance. On the other hand it should also have potential of a good long term result in case of success. Cemented revisions generally show inferior long term results compared to uncemented techniques; the addition of antibiotics to cement reduc[r]

female, but in the end the women are revealed to be metaphoric.2 The former is one that most of my students already knew quite well but had not ex-plored on a literary level. While Common’s “I Used to Love H.E.R.” is an unfamiliar song to most of my students, they were eager to read it as a t[r]

primary osteoarthritis of the hip. A comparison of total joint and surfacereplacement arthroplasty results. J Bone Joint Surg 1984, 66-A:228-241.14. Bleasel JF, York JR, Korber J, Tyer HD: Total hip arthroplasty in the youngarthritic patient. Aust N Z J Med 1994, 24(3):296-300.1[r]

domization and comparison with a control group.Another major drawback in elucidating the role of stemcell therapy in HF is that each cell-based study uses aunique protocol regarding the optimal cell type, thenumber of cells to be delivered, and the most suitableroute for cell delivery. Design of a l[r]

5 THE REGRESSION MODELS By the end of the parameterisation stage, each text of the corpus has been reduced to a vector com-prising the 14 following predictive variables : the result of t[r]

subjected to an abductor force. Both groups were subjected to the same cranial-caudal hip contact force component, 2.3 times body weight (BW) and each specimen was subjected to three levels of anterior-posterior hip contact load: 0, -0.1 to 0.3 BW (walking), and -0.1 to 0.6 BW (stair c[r]

fractures: Treatment by mold arthroplasty. J Bone Joint Surg 1969, 51-A:737-755.24. Hoeksama HL, Ende Van den CHM, Ronaday HK, Heering A, Breedveld F,Dekker J: Comparison of the responsiveness of the Harris Hip Score withgeneric measures for hip function in osteoarthritis of the[r]

the lowest average change in leg length and femoral offset. It is therefore superior in restoring hip biomechanics than LHM or conventional small head THRs. All results for the three arthroplasty groups were pooled into leg length and offset data, for each of the 3 repeated measurements. Cor[r]

subjected to an abductor force. Both groups were subjected to the same cranial-caudal hip contact force component, 2.3 times body weight (BW) and each specimen was subjected to three levels of anterior-posterior hip contact load: 0, -0.1 to 0.3 BW (walking), and -0.1 to 0.6 BW (stair c[r]

Keywords Platelet rich plasmaInjection Growth factorsTendon injury Autologous blood Musculoskeletal injuries Chondropenia Knee osteoarthritis Introduction In Europe, and more recently in[r]

prosthesis has been reimplanted in 8 cases. One pa-tient passed away due to an unclear cause between stages, another patient (bilateral spacer implantation) due to a cardiomyopathy. In both cases, a reinfection could be excluded by magnet resonance imaging (MRI). Patients’ comorbidities, surgical pr[r]

partial weight bearing and joint motion is very im-portant in the prevention of dislocations. Certainly, a disadvantage of our treatment protocol is the one-size spacer which has been implanted in all cases. Perhaps, if we have had several moulds for spacer production and each case would have been t[r]

imaging findings in patients with rapidly destructive hiposteoarthritis that can overlap other diagnostic entities.The key MR imaging features include an extensive bonemarrow edema like pattern in the femoral head and neck,femoral head flattening, and cyst like subchondral defects.Our study has a ma[r]

Conflict of interest The authors have declared that no conflict of in-terest exists. References 1. Hanssen AD, Osmon DR. Evaluation of a staging system for infected hip arthroplasty. Clin Orthop 2002;403:16-22 2. Callaghan JJ, Katz RP, Johnston RC. One-stage revision surgery of the inf[r]

Chapter 088. Hepatocellular Carcinoma (Part 4) Physical Signs Hepatomegaly is the most common physical sign, occurring in 50–90% of patients. Abdominal bruits are noted in 6–25%, and ascites occurs in 30–60% of patients. Ascites should be examined by cytology. Splenomegaly is mainly due to portal h[r]

anesthesia. The pelvis should be stabilized in proper orientation to allow proper evaluation of the acetabular version. The incision is curvilinear, approximately 20-25 cm in length and centered over the GT curving slightly posteriorly at 20 degree angle. The fascia lata is incised and the interval[r]