A fifteen-year-old female patient presented with a severe bilateral groin contracture for the last 8 years. She had sustained burns at the age of seven years. Three attempts to release the contracture with split thickness skin grafts had been done without success. A pedicled anterior lateral thigh flap was raised and advanced into the defect after the contracture had been released. Postoperativ...

Muscle contracture and joint stiffness are a major concern during limb lengthening using the Ilizarov method. The aim of this study was to detect factors that may influence the final loss of knee flexion. We retrospectively studied knee movement in 32 patients undergoing femoral lengthening using the Ilizarov method. The pattern of loss of knee movement showed a rapid fall in knee flexion durin...

Reported is the case of a 68-year-old male presenting with severe wrist and hand stiffness following surgery for a Dupuytren's contracture. Complications of surgery or rehabilitation and complex regional pain syndrome were excluded as factors explaining this stiffness. Given the patient's diabetes mellitus and the striking similarity with the typical diabetic stiff hand, it is suggested that di...

OBJECTIVES To detail the transition to a totally one-stop wide-awake (OSWA) Dupuytren's contracture surgical service. DESIGN Retrospective review of Dupuytren's component of last 1000 OSWA cases. SETTING The UK's first totally one-stop wide-awake orthopaedic service. PARTICIPANTS 270 patients with Dupuytren's contracture out of the last 1000 OSWA cases. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Surgical ou...

The disease is often genetic and may indicate that you have Viking ancestry! It is commoner in males and in people that are diabetic, epileptic, who have liver disease or those who have injured the hand. Both alcohol consumption and smoking increase the risk of its appearance. Its progression is unpredictable but its appearance at an early age (<40years), particularly if there is a strong famil...

We compared the results in two groups of patients with late reduction of posterior elbow dislocations, one of which had lengthening of the triceps (group A, n = 36) and the other did not (group B, n = 34). The elbows had all been dislocated for more than one month and less than three months. The patients in group B had better clinical results and significantly less postoperative flexion contrac...

Đặt vấn đề: Nghiên cứu đánh giá kết quả phẫu thuật gãy Dupuytren ở người trưởng tại bệnh viện Hữu Nghị Việt Đức. Đối tượng và phương pháp nghiên cứu: mô tả cắt ngang hồi tiến không đối chứng trên 44 nhân được chẩn đoán 18 tuổi đã điều trị Viện chấn thương chỉnh hình Bệnh Đức từ tháng 3 năm 2018 đến 2021. Kết quả: Đa số độ 50 (61,3%), trong đó nam giới chiếm tỉ lệ cao hơn (59,1%); tai nạn giao t...