BACKGROUND Chest wall implosion injuries secondary to side impact are unusual but devastating injuries. The purpose of this series is to describe the clinical entity, present a surgical technique to reduce and repair the thoracic cage deformity without thoracotomy, and report outcomes in nine patients. STUDY Institutional review board approved retrospective case series, surgical technique. ...

The structures in the posterolateral corner of the knee, which stabilize the joint, are often involved in injuries to the posterior cruciate ligament. Familiar structures include the anterior cruciate ligament, posterior cruciate ligament, tibial collateral ligament, and menisci. Less familiar are the structures of the posterolateral corner, the most important of which are the fibular collatera...

This study aimed to investigate the surgical techniques and the clinical efficacy of a modified Frosch approach in the treatment of posterolateral tibial plateau fractures. The standard Frosch approach was performed on 5 fresh-frozen cadavers. The mean bony surface area was measured upon adequate exposure of the proximal tibial cortex. Lateral proximal tibial plate and posterolateral T-plates w...

BACKGROUND Chronic posterolateral knee injuries often result in substantial patient morbidity and functional instability. The clinical stability and functional outcomes following anatomic reconstructions in patients with a chronic posterolateral knee injury have not been determined, to our knowledge. METHODS A two-center outcomes study of sixty-four patients with grade-3 chronic posterolatera...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this article was to evaluate the risks and benefits of non-operative treatment versus surgical excision of a fabella causing posterolateral knee pain. We performed a systematic review of literature and also present two case reports.Twelve publications were found in a PubMed literature review searching the word "fabella syndrome". Non-operative treatment and surgical ex...

of VATS lobectomy compared to thoracotomy lobectomy and the influence of the length of stay very much mirror our own larger experience in Canada. When we compared costs of over 250 VATS lobectomy cases to an open lobectomy, intraoperative costs were approximately double ($2810CD vs $1425CD). However, length of stay (LOS) was 1.3 days shorter for VATS cases (4.9 days vs 6.2 days). Based on an an...

RPL is the IETF candidate standard for IPv6 routing in low-power wireless sensor networks. We present the first experimental results of RPL which we have obtained with our ContikiRPL implementation. Our results show that Tmote Sky motes running IPv6 with RPL routing have a battery lifetime of years, while delivering 0.6 packets per second to a sink node.

introduction: video-assisted thoracic surgery (vats) is now commonly used for primary spontaneous pneumothorax. in the present study we compared the outcomes of this technique with those obtained by conventional thoracotomy.material and methods: in this cross-sectional stud, forty patients were enrolled into two groups: vats (n=20) and thoracotomy (n=20). in both groups the blebs were resected ...