RATIONALE Intercondylar fracture of the distal humerus is an extremely rare injury in children, especially in those under 8 years of age. To our best knowledge, there have been 55 reported cases of this fracture type in children in the English literature, 12 of which involved children under 8 years of age. PATIENT CONCERNS We report a case of intercondylar fracture of the distal humerus in a7...

Unilateral condylar hyperplasia is the main cause of mandibular asymmetry. Radionuclide bone scanning is a useful procedure for functional evaluation of temporomandibular joint. In this study, 39 patients with normal bone scan and no facial asymmetry were studied. All patients were below 22 years of age. Normal condylar uptake was determined in this group of patients. Right & left condyla...

BACKGROUND This is to assess one of the rare complications after total knee replacement and to assess risk factors of failure. METHODS 11 patients with varus knee and an average age of 67 years underwent TKA between 2005 and 2013. All patients returned with a sudden sharp knee pain, disability to walk and significant decrease in ROM about 4 to 8 weeks after surgery. Radiographic examination r...

We examined 36 consecutive patients with closed tibial plateau fractures under anaesthesia and by diagnostic and operative arthroscopy before treating them by closed or open reduction and internal fixation. Following the principle of Hohl (1967) (Fig. 1) there were 9 minimally displaced fractures (type I), 6 with local depression (type II), 13 with split depression (type III), 7 with total cond...

Removal of third molars is a common procedure performed in oral surgery. Although there are well-defined indications for removal of impacted third molars, removal of asymptomatic third molars is still universally practiced. This article reviews the body of knowledge regarding for and against the prophylactic surgical extraction of impacted third molars in contemporary oral surgical practice, an...

The bifid mandibular condyle (BMC) represents a rare developmental anomaly first described in 1941,1 and only a few cases have been reported since. Several factors have been cited as possible causes of BMC, including condylar fracture, developmental anomalies, perinatal trauma, teratogenic embryopathy and surgical condylectomy.2,3 It usually affects only one condyle, and the observation of bila...

Stress fracture of the femoral component is a rare complication following total knee arthroplasty. We report one such complication which occurred 6.5 years after primary implantation of an uncemented meniscal Low Contact Stress (LCS) prosthesis. The fracture affected the medial condyle of the femoral component, and a large osteolytic lesion was present in the underlying femoral condyle. The pat...

Comminuted subtrochanteric femoral fractures are considered as one of the most difficult fracture to treat for the orthopaedic surgeons [1,2,3,4]. Until now there is no agreement in the orthopaedic literatures for the best method to manage such complicated fractures [2,4,5]. The biological fixation is considered now as one of the golden solutions for this complicated fracture. The aim of biolog...

Condylar fractures account for 25-35% of mandibular fractures and deserve a special consideration apart from rest of the mandible due to their anatomical differences and healing potential. Previous clinical and biomechanical studies have recommended using two miniplates for fixation of condyle fractures. Two miniplates require a certain size of the proximal condyle fragment and thus are applica...

One of the most common sites of injury of the facial skeleton is mandibular condyle. However, it is the least diagnosed site of trauma in the head and neck regions. A trauma to the mandible and specifically condylar zone during childhood, may lead to asymmetry or mandibular bilateral distortion, which is usually manifested in the second decade of life when the etiology is unknown to most people...