BACKGROUND A discrepancy in leg length and femoral offset restoration is the leading cause of patient dissatisfaction in hip replacement surgery and has profound implications on patient quality of life. The aim of this study is to compare biomechanical hip reconstruction in hip resurfacing, large-diameter femoral head hip arthroplasty and conventional total hip replacement. METHOD Sixty patie...

Background and purpose - Knee pain after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is not uncommon. Patellar retention in TKA is one cause of postoperative knee pain, and may lead to secondary addition of a patellar component. Patellar resurfacing in TKA is controversial. Its use ranges from 2% to 90% worldwide. In this randomized study, we compared the outcome after patellar resurfacing and after no resur...

Fractional resurfacing may be used in the management of melasma, striae/stretch marks, acne scars, pearly penile papule, syringoma, burn scar, verrucous epidermal naevus and skin tightening. In 20-30% of the patients with melasma, fractional resurfacing may not be effective or may even cause an exacerbation. Treatment effects may also be temporary. When compared with traditional carbon dioxide ...

BACKGROUND Anterior knee pain may occur after total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Patellar resurfacing, which is considered to lower the incidence of anterior knee pain after TKA, remains controversial. In the present study clinical and radiological outcomes after TKA performed on patients with clinical and radiological signs of femorotibial and patellofemoral osteoarthritis (OA) with and without pa...

The aim of this study was to compare a patient cohort after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in terms of the revision rate and the functional outcome, with and without patella resurfacing. Sixty-six patients (71 TKAs) were implanted with the mobile-bearing knee prosthesis system e.motion UC (Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen, Germany). These patients were divided into 2 groups, 1 of which received primary p...

In 1938 Marion Smith-Peterson placed a cobalt chromium cup on a reshaped femoral head to perform the first hip resurfacing.15 Also, in 1938, Philip Wiles performed the first total hip replacement.17 Both procedures revolutionized the treatment of hip arthritis. Most surgeons are opposed to hip resurfacing because it is difficult to perform and there is a high rate of success with total hip repl...

Nowadays, Erbium: YAG laser resurfacing of periorbital skin has become a very popular method of wrinkle reduction. Seven patients with Fitzpatrick skin phototypes of II to V were treated with a 2940 nm Erbium: YAG laser system for resurfacing of periorbital wrinkles. Photographic evalution performed before and after treatment. Patients were visited at 1,2,3,5,7,14,30 and 60 days after laser res...

The purpose of this study was to compare clinical and radiological outcomes of the first 191 fully porous-coated hip resurfacing arthroplasties with 96 hybrid hip resurfacing arthroplasties performed during the same period at a minimum 2-year follow-up to evaluate the initial fixation of uncemented femoral resurfacing components. The results of this study indicate that fully porous-coated femor...

Hip resurfacing has recently been offered as an attractive alternative to conventional total hip arthroplasty. This report evaluated the short-term functional outcome and longevity of a newer generation resurfacing device and includes the results of 228 consecutive hip resurfacing in 209 patients at a minimum of two-year follow-up. All resurfacing were performed by a single surgeon using a post...