In their review of the late results of the treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip Muller and Seddon (1953) commented that between the ages of twenty-three and thirty-three years nearly half the previously satisfactory joints become troublesome in one way or another. When reduction of the dislocation has been achieved, the problem usually becomes one of treatment of a degenerative arthri...

Congenital knee dislocation is a rare anomaly associated with a variety of neuromuscular diseases and deformities. The etiology of this condition remains unclear, but it is usually associated with a variety of disorders, such as Larsen's syndrome, arthrogryposis, spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Down syndrome, and Streeter's dysplasia. It is rarely an isolated entity, and 6...

BACKGROUND Congenital amusia is a disorder that is known to affect the processing of musical pitch. Although individuals with amusia rarely show language deficits in daily life, a number of findings point to possible impairments in speech prosody that amusic individuals may compensate for by drawing on linguistic information. Using EEG, we investigated (1) whether the processing of speech proso...

It is important to investigate the incidence of congenital color deficiency and to determine the type and degree because the color deficiency can effect as a handicap to certain occupations. The incidence of congenital color deficiency is remarkably constant among Caucasians but other races show considerable variations. We investigated the incidence of congenital color deficiency among Koreans ...

INTRODUCTION The aim of our study was to evaluate changes in collodiaphyseal, Hilgenreiner and Wiberg's centre-edge angle values in different age groups of children before and after surgical correction of developmental dysplasia of the hip. MATERIAL AND METHODS We evaluated 78 children with developmental hip dysplasia treated at University Children's Hospital in Belgrade during a 10-year peri...

During my early orthopaedic training, between 1936 and 1939, I failed to appreciate the full horror ofbone and joint tuberculosis, with its protracted treatment and crippling results; I encountered several cases during the war, but it was not until I became superintendent of the Derby County Tuberculosis and Orthopaedic Service in 1947 that this was borne in on me. The Orthopaedic Hospital at B...

Though it has long been recognised that the earlier treatment for congenital dislocation of the hip is started the better is the result, it is only quite recently that serious efforts have been made to recognise the condition at birth. A clinical method of diagnosing congenital dislocation of the hip first described by Ortolani (1937) has been used in Northern Italy for many years, but until vo...

INTRODUCTION Radiocarpal dislocation is a rare injury and thus the number of cases described is limited. The course of the injury is favorable when the treatment provided is appropriate. CLINICAL CASE A 21-year-old male patient who sustained radiocarpal dislocation and fracture of the radial styloid process in both wrists. He was treated with closed reduction and external fixation. The evalua...