BACKGROUND We sought to determine if angulation or translation measured on the lateral preoperative injury radiographs of patients with 31A2 pertrochanteric fractures is related to excessive postoperative shortening when treated with a sliding hip screw. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the radiographs of consecutive patients with hip fractures treated at a level I university trauma centre...

Background Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a complex genetic disease with marked morphofunctional heterogeneity. Some HCM patients develop obstructive symptoms later in life, long after cessation of hypertrophic progression. The mechanism underlying this phenomenon is poorly understood. It is known that aorto-septal angulation progresses with age. However, the relationship between age, sep...

Camptomelic dwarfism or dysplas1a is a rare syndrome in which· short stature is associated with angulation and bowing of the lower limb Long bones, hypoplasia of the facial bones and scapula and various other skeletal and respiratory and nervous system. A 9 day old girl with this syndrome was admitted in our peiatric Department, Loghman Hospital medical center because of Dwarfism and hypotonia....

OBJECTIVE(S) Clinical assessment of maximal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) diameter assumes clinical equivalency between ultrasound (US) and axial computed tomography (CT). Three-dimensional (3D) CT reconstruction allows for the assessment of AAA in the orthogonal plane and avoids oblique cuts due to AAA angulation. This study was undertaken to compare maximal AAA diameter by US, axial CT, and...

Results Conservative treatment was indicated in 393 patients. 27% of patients do not accept the proposed treatment or interrupt it spontaneously. 23% of patients have a physiological angulation less than 44° at the end of treatment. 43% of patients were reviewed two years after removal of the brace. The initial kyphosis angle was 60.5°. The final angulation 2 years after removal of the brace wa...

Objectives: The prevalence of impacted teeth fluctuates across various ethnicities and geographical regions. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the prevalence and patterns of impacted teeth among patients living in the central part of Iran. Methods: This retrospective study was conducted on 3632 patients within the age group of 17-30 years. The frequency and pattern of the impaction w...