A bone reaming system with temperature tactile sensation display was developed for potential use during bone internal fixation surgery. The developed reaming system will allow tracking of the amount of heat generated inside fractured bones by surgeons throughout the reaming process. It consists of a temperature sensing system to measure the bone cavity temperature, a rotor system to provide the...

Removing a broken guide wire is difficult and challenging. This article reports a method that was used to successfully remove a broken guide wire in 3 patients who underwent operative treatment for intertrochanteric fractures of the femur. Under general anesthesia, the first patient was placed on the orthopedic fracture table, and closed reduction of the hip fracture was performed under the ima...

Background: In shoulders requiring arthroplasty, the extant glenoid may provide insufficient intrinsic stability for the humeral head – for example if the glenoid is flat or biconcave. In such cases the surgeon can restore the desired intrinsic stability using a glenoid prosthesis with a known surface geometry. Alternatively, the surgeon can modify the surface of the glenoid to a geometry that ...

Introduction There is general agreement that early internal stabilization in long bone fractures in severely injured patients is advantageous. Intramedullary reaming and nailing, however, include increased intramedullary pressure. This may cause intravasation of bone marrow contents, leading to bone marrow embolisation and altered cardiopulmonary function. Possible beneficial effects of attenua...

Severe glenoid wear is technically problematic, has a higher complication rate, and inferior results in the setting of shoulder arthroplasty. This paper introduces four basic strategies for treating glenoid erosion with a reverse shoulder arthroplasty which include; 1. eccentric reaming, 2. bone grafting of glenoid, 3. reaming and bone grafting, and 4. using augmented baseplates. The benefits a...

BACKGROUND The effect of reaming on bone volume and surface area of the glenoid is not precisely known. We hypothesize that (1) convex reamers create a larger surface area than flat reamers, (2) flat reamers cause less bone loss than convex reamers, and (3) the amount of bone loss increases with the amount of version correction. METHODS Reaming procedures with different types of reamers are p...

Ribbing disease is a rare benign sclerosing bone dysplasia. It presents with an increased bone density at the diaphysis with cortical endosteal/periosteal thickening and affects predominantly the lower extremities. We report a case of a 28 year-old woman with a this condition in her tibia that occluded the medullary cavity, with severe pain that could not be relieved with anti-inflammatory ther...

HYPOTHESIS Fractures and femoral reaming are associated with lung injury. The mechanisms linking fractures and inflammation are unclear, but tissue disruption might release mitochondria. Mitochondria are evolutionarily derived from bacteria and contain "damage associated molecular patterns" like formylated peptides that can activate immunocytes. We therefore studied whether fracture reaming rel...