the enthusiasm, or lack thereof, of surgeons in the community to perform Whipple resections in this disease. If the residing philosophy is one of conservation (as is my current approach), the tendency for “preoperative” stenting will be more enthusiastic than in a centre where the surgical approach to palliation in this disease is more the rule than the exception. Clearly, the surgical approach...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the results of surgical treatment of displaced acetabular fractures, and to discern which variables influence the final radiological and clinical outcome. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 23 patients who underwent open reduction and internal fixation of acetabular fracture with a mean age of 40.4 years (17-72 years). Mean follow-up was 4 years (1.5-7.5 years). Accordi...

This aim of this work was to carry out an epidemiological study on acetabular fractures in the city of Campinas and surrounds, in view of the few published papers on this subject. Medical files with a diagnosis of acetabular fracture between the years 2004 and 2008 that were made available by the Medical Archiving Service of Hospital das Clínicas, State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) were ana...

OBJECTIVE The acetabular buttress-plate has been widely used in treating difficult cases with satisfying clinical results. However, the biomechanical properties of a postoperative acetabular fracture fixed by the buttress-plate are not clear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the biomechanical properties of stability after the anterior tube buttress-plate fixation of complex acetabular ...

Injury to the sciatic nerve is one of the more serious complications of acetabular fracture and traumatic dislocation of the hip, both in the short and long term. We have reviewed prospectively patients, treated in our unit, for acetabular fractures who had concomitant injury to the sciatic nerve, with the aim of predicting the functional outcome after these injuries. Of 136 patients who underw...

Introduction Hip fractures in the elderly pose an increasing problem in society. In the elderly, a bipolar hemiarthroplasty (HA) remains the treatment of choice in case of hip fractures related to osteoporosis. However, due to an ongoing osteoporosis in this age group, a periprosthetic femoral fracture and a fracture of the unresurfaced acetabulum are increasingly noticed.In the literature, no ...

BACKGROUND Hip dislocation after arthroplasty for femoral neck fractures remains a serious complication. The aim of our study was to investigate the dislocation rate in acute femoral neck fracture patients operated with a posterior approach with cemented conventional or dual articulation acetabular components. METHODS We compared the dislocation rate in 56 consecutive patients operated with c...