The paper presents a modified operative technique for involutional lower lid entropion. The prospective noncomparative study of 101 lower eyelids of 88 patients undergoing surgery for involutional lower lid entropion was conducted in period from September 2005 until March 2012. Indication for the surgery was entropion, previously untreated, with moderate to severe horizontal lid laxity and no c...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of clinical gait analysis (GA) on the costs of care in ambulatory children with cerebral palsy (CP) and the amount of surgery these children undergo. METHODS A retrospective review identified all ambulatory patients with CP who had undergone lower extremity orthopaedic surgery at our hospital from 1991 to 2005 with at least a 6...

We report the outcome at ten to 15 years of two-stage revision for hip infection in 99 patients using the Prostalac articulated hip spacer system. All the patients were contacted to determine their current functional and infection status using the Oxford-12, Short form-12, and Western Ontario and McMaster University Osteoarthritis Index questionnaires. A total of 11 of the 99 patients had a fur...

Queueing models can be useful in solving many complex reliability problems. Component failures are usually interpreted as the arrival of customers and the repair or replacement of failed components is typically associated with the service facility. A distinctive characteristic of queues in reliability is that requests for service are usually generated by a finite customer population because, in...

BACKGROUND The overall prognosis for patients with metastatic malignant melanoma remains poor. However, careful staging and identification of patients with limited metastatic disease offers the opportunity for surgical salvage and improved survival for selected patients. METHODS We reviewed the experience over the last 17 years at our institute with isolated pulmonary metastasectomy in 86 pat...