Humero-Scapular Periarthritis *Rearranged by the Editor.

On Humero-Scapular Periarthritis

In the year 1872, Duplay described a disease of the shoulder characterized by restriction of the movements in the shoulder-joint and by pains over the greater tuberosity of the humerus. The diagnosis of this disease was rather uncertain, as it was often mistaken for muscular rheumatism or incipient arthritis. The introduction of x-rays facilitated the differential diagnosis of this disease, as ...

Reconstruction of the proximal humerus after extensive extraarticular resection for osteosarcoma: a report of two cases with clavicula pro humero reconstruction.

Two cases with clavicula pro humero reconstruction are described after extensive extraarticular wide resection of osteosarcoma due to the aggressive invasion, pre-operative pathological fracture, and relatively resistant to preoperative chemotherapy. Each patient had proximal humeral osteosarcoma and needed extraarticular resection. One necessitated more than two-third of humeral resection and ...

Shoulder pain and metabolic syndrome.

To the Editor, Shoulder pain is a very common complaint in clinical practice. One of the most common etiologies is periarthritis that encompasses involvement of tendons, joint capsule and bursas from this area. It is well known that there is an association of shoulder periarthritis with diabetes mellitus (DM) but lately this association has been widened to embrace the whole metabolic syndrome (...

A Huge Goitre *Rearranged by Editor.

A Case of Hysterical Monoplegia *Rearranged by Editor.