PURPOSE To review clinical results of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with large bone defects of the tibial condyle. METHODS Records of 33 knees in 27 women and 3 men aged 44 to 80 (mean, 63.6) years who underwent primary TKA for RA with large tibial bone defects were reviewed. 16 knees had peripheral defects extending to the bone cortex, whereas 17 knees h...

To the Editor: We read with interest the December 2008 article by Belthur et al. [1] entitled ‘‘Bone Graft Harvest Using a New Intramedullary System.’’ The authors’ comparison of iliac crest bone graft harvesting to intramedullary collection with the Reamer/Irrigator/Aspirator (RIA) system (Synthes, Inc, West Chester, PA) is an important study comparing these two methods of bone graft harvestin...

BACKGROUND All surgical screws can experience failure if the torsional, tensile, and flexion loads exerted on the screws are excessively high. The use of self-tapping screws (STS) results in higher insertion torques (IT) as these screws cut their own threads in the pilot hole drilled in the bone. In this study, the torque for inserting the STS into an osteoporotic bone block for different pilot...

In this case report, the clinical and radiographic results of treatment Salter Harris Type II fracture in left humerus an 1 year old female crossbred dog with parallel pin technique was evaluated. The complaining lameness brought to Siirt University, Faculty Veterinary Medicine, Clinic Surgery Department local findings were found distal 1/3 humerus. On radiological examination, it that physeal ...

objective: this study was conducted to determine the changes in the insular cortex in alcohol dependent subjects, and to compare the same with controls, the associated clinical findings. methods: the study group consisted of 30 subjects with alcohol dependence syndrome (ads) selected randomly from the out patient services of the department of psychiatry of a tertiary care hospital. the control ...