Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2006;19:402–405 A 42-year-old woman with lateral left ankle pain presented to the orthopaedic clinic. She complained of unrelenting left ankle pain following a fall a week earlier. The plain radiographs of her left ankle revealed no evidence of fracture. Following her visit to the clinic, the orthopaedic surgeon ordered a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of the l...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the associations between patient sex, age, cause of injury, and frequency of meniscus and articular cartilage lesions seen at the time of the anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. SETTING University affiliated hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Medical notes and operating records of 672 Chinese patients who had received anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction betw...

intervertebral joints, with contusion of the cord by the neural arch at the moment of injury, and that spontaneous reduction accounted for the subsequent normal radiographic appearances. This theory was criticised by Cramer and McGowan (1944), and Barnes (1948) showed that a posterior dislocation in flexion that was capable of spontaneous reduction did not produce sufficient narrowing of the sp...