This study reports the preliminary results of surgical treatment of bone bruise of the tibial plateau. Twelve patients underwent percutaneous screw fixation with a mean follow-up of 15 months. The mean duration of surgery was 15 minutes. Preoperatively, 1 week postoperatively, 1 month postoperatively, 6 months postoperatively, and 12 months postoperatively, the mean visual analog scale scores w...

Traumatic knee injuries affect numerous physically active individuals each year. Damage to subchondral bone, often termed bone bruise, is frequently detected on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) during the diagnosis of traumatic knee injury. Little is known regarding the effects of bone bruises on pain in individuals with traumatic knee injury. Understanding the presentation of self-reported pai...

Paediatricians are often requested to give an opinion on the age of a non-accidental bruise. In forensic textbooks, the colour changes which a bruise undergoes with time are not based on research in children. The purpose of this study was to document the sequence of colour changes in photographs taken following accidental bruising in children. Fifty accidental bruises of known age in 23 childre...

Clinical applicability of spectroscopy combined with bruise modeling may be improved if bruises on the same anatomical position have similar values of model parameters. We first investigate if a group of bruises located on the medial arm and measured once, at variable ages of presentation, show similar spectroscopic properties as a single bruise measured in time. Second, we investigate if spect...

AIMS To develop a non-invasive method to demonstrate the presence of haemoglobin and its degradation products in bruises in live human subjects for the purposes of objectively assisting in the determination of the age of a bruise. METHODS The cuvette holder unit of a Cary 100 Bio UV-Visible Spectrophotometer was replaced with the manufacture's fibre optic cable and optical reflectance probe. ...

Knowledge of model parameters in bruise modeling is a prerequisite for accurate simulation of temporal bruise behavior, e.g. to obtain reliable age determination. So far 3 tissue specific model parameters (diffusivity of hemoglobin, concentration of the hemoglobin converting enzyme, and clearance time of bilirubin into the lymphatic system) were determined from area measurements of hemoglobin a...

in the present research, susceptibility of two strawberry cultivars (selva and gavita) to bruising was studied. individual fruits were subjected to impact and compressive forces. impact forces were applied through dropping the fruits from predetermined heights as well as pendulum. bruising volume was considered as damage index. in both methods bruising severity was increased as a function of im...

The detection and aging of bruises is important within clinical and forensic environments. Traditionally, visual and photographic assessment of bruise color is used to determine age, but this substantially subjective technique has been shown to be inaccurate and unreliable. The purpose of this study was to develop a technique to spectrally-age bruises using a reflective multi-spectral imaging s...