The treatment of condylar process fractures has generated a great deal of discussion and controversy in oral and maxillofacial trauma and there are many different methods to treat this injury. For each type of condylar fracture, the techniques must be chosen taking into consideration the presence of teeth, fracture height, patient's adaptation, patient's masticatory system, disturbance of occlu...

ABSTRACT The aim of the study was to evaluate results of closed intramedullary nailing using Talwarkar square nails in adult forearm fractures. We prospectively evaluated 34 patients with both bone forearm fractures. The average time to union was 12.8 (SD +3.2) weeks with cast support for a mean of 8.2 weeks. Union was achieved in 31 out of 34 patients. Using the Grace and Eversmann rating syst...

conclusions metacarpal neck fractures are a common injury in young and active patients that results in substantial missed time from work. while the surgical indications are well-described, there is no consensus on the optimal treatment modality because of high complication rates. dorsal plating has higher complication rates than closed reduction and percutaneous pinning, but is necessary in com...

We treated 22 children with a supracondylar fracture of the humerus and an ipsilateral fracture of the forearm by closed reduction and percutaneous fixation. There were four Gartland type-II and 18 Gartland type-III supracondylar fractures of the humerus. There were fractures of both bones of the forearm in 16 and of the radius in six. Both the supracondylar and the distal forearm fractures wer...

Paralysis or nerve injury associated with fractures of forearm bones fracture is rare and is more common in exposed fractures with large soft-tissue injuries. Ulnar nerve paralysis is a rare condition associated with closed fractures of the forearm. In most cases, the cause of paralysis is nerve contusion, which evolves with neuropraxia. However, nerve lacerations and entrapment at the fracture...

Fulminant fat embolism is well recognised although uncommon. This case report of a patient developing pulmonary oedema during surgery and anaesthesia and dying four hours later is rare, unusual and disturbing. Two similar but non-fatal cases, both young males, of intraoperative pulmonary oedema associated with closed fracture reductions, where fat embolism was implicated, have been previously r...

In recent times, crime rate in Nigeria has risen to the level in which there are public outcries urging government for urgent and concrete solutions. Government has adopted various security policies to secure the lives and properties of its citizens, but none of these policies have actually yielded positive results. Human abduction, armed robbery, terrorism, bomb attacks and lots more have been...

BACKGROUND Pediatric supracondylar humerus fractures are the most common elbow fractures seen in children, and account for 16 % of all pediatric fractures. Closed reduction and percutaneous pin fixation is the current treatment technique of choice for displaced supracondylar fractures of the distal humerus in children. The purpose of this study was to determine whether pin diameter affects the ...

BACKGROUND Nasal bone fractures are managed by closed reduction within the 2-week period, and are managed by secondary correction after this time. There is little literature on the delayed reduction for nasal bone fractures beyond the 2-week duration. We report our experience with nasal fractures, which were reduced beyond this period. METHODS A retrospective review was performed for all pati...