BACKGROUND The age-adjusted rate of radical prostatectomy, the most common treatment of early (nonmetastatic) prostate cancer, increased almost sixfold between 1984 and 1990. This increase was due in part to reported improvements in postoperative sexual potency after the use of newly developed "nerve-sparing" procedures. However, published estimates from physicians of impotence following variou...

We have reviewed seven patients who had triceps transfer after an old brachial plexus injury. All patients had a useful functional improvement with a good range of powerful elbow flexion; five patients could manage to bring their hand to their mouth. The basis of patient selection and the relative advantages of triceps transfer are discussed.

In children cubitus varus is common after malunion of a supracondylar fracture of the humerus. Later problems such as tardy ulnar nerve palsy, snapping of the lateral triceps tendon or ulnar nerve and posterolateral rotatory instability are well documented. We present a case of anteromedial dislocation of the entire triceps tendon with loss of extensor power and describe the method of treatment.

Rare additional slips of triceps brachii muscle was found bilaterally in a sixty two year old South Indian male cadaver during routine dissection of upper limb for undergraduate students at Melaka-Manipal Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, India. On left side, the variant additional muscle slip took origin from the lower part of the medial intermuscular septum about 4 cm proximal to ...

19 The cases of 4 Pomeranians with injury of the triceps brachii tendon that underwent surgical 20 treatment were retrospectively reviewed to evaluate some clinical findings including signalment, 21 cause of injury, clinical signs, pattern of injury, surgical technique, external coaptation after 22 operation, complications, and outcomes. While all of the dogs showed non-weight bearing posture o...

OBJECTIVE To assess the influence of low birth weight in full-term infants on body composition at school age. METHOD This is a cross-sectional study nested in a cohort of 375 infants recruited at birth between 1993 and 1994 in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. At 8 years of age, the body composition of 213 children from this cohort was assessed by measurement of triceps and subscapular skinfol...

The architectural properties of the posterior deltoid muscle and the 3 heads of the triceps were measured using microdissection techniques to determine whether substitution of triceps function by the posterior deltoid is architecturally appropriate. Muscles from 10 fresh cadaver specimens were fixed by high-pressure perfusion using buffered formaldehyde. Muscle architectural properties, includi...