Bimalleolar and trimalleolar fractures are common orthopedic injuries. There are different techniques of fixation and various surgical approaches. We compared our method of fixation, especially fractures with posterior fragments, with the traditional method. From January to June 2008, 73 cases of ankle fracture were treated in our trauma center. All cases were bimalleolar or trimalleolar fractu...

SYNOPSIS Injuries to the posterolateral corner of the knee pose a significant challenge to sports medicine team members due to their complex nature. Identifying posterolateral corner injuries is paramount to determining proper surgical management of the injured athlete, with the goal of preventing chronic pain, instability, and/or surgical failure. Postoperative rehabilitation is based on the s...

Posterolateral rotatory instability is a relatively uncommon cause of unstable total knee arthroplasty (TKA). In most cases, surgical treatment requires revision TKA into a more constrained design or thicker polyethylene liner. We present a case of a patient with unstable TKA who remained unstable after increasing thickness of the polyethylene liner and undergoing more constrained TKA. After se...

Purpose The aim of the current study is to report the advantage and disadvantage of total hip arthroplasty performed in direct anterior approach (DAA) by comparing it to the posterolateral approach (PLA). Materials and Methods Twenty-five hip arthroplasty done in DAA (12 total hip arthroplasty [THA] and 13 bipolar hemiarthroplasty [BHA]) were compared with the same number done in PLA (13 THA ...

Early research shows several advantages of the Direct Anterior Approach (DAA) in total hip arthroplasty (THA), although no studies evaluated the DAA on a regular operating table without using fluoroscopy. We performed a retrospective cohort study on the outcome of this variation of the DAA compared with the posterolateral approach (PLA) with one year follow-up. All procedures were uncemented TH...

Recent design-based stereologic studies have shown that the early postnatal (<1 year of age) human cerebellum is characterized by very high plasticity and may thus be very sensitive to external and internal influences during the first year of life. A potential weakness of these studies is that they were not separately performed on functionally relevant subregions of the cerebellum, as was the c...

Implant malposition and poor fixation are potential risks of compromising long-term results after total hip arthroplasty performed with a minimally invasive technique. Between September 2000 and February 2002, 120 cemented primary total hip arthroplasties were performed at the authors' institutions in patients with primary osteoarthritis of the hip and with BMI lower than 35. In 60 of these cas...