Dear Editor,We have greatly enjoyed reading the case report entitled “‘Femoral Condyle Fracture during Revision of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Case Report and a Review of Literature in the issue of Arch Bone Jt Surg. 2015;3(2) with great interest. We would like to commend the authors for their detailed and valuable work. Although various case reports have described postoperative ...

Introduction: Avascular necrosis (AVN) of the femoral head is a leading cause of end-stage joint disease in the young population that can conduct patients to total hip replacement in early life. There are various risk factors including, trauma, corticosteroids, thrombosis, hypertension, and alcohol. There is a growing number of femoral head AVN patients with a history of self-medication with he...

background: osteoporosis is a preventable and treatable disorder, reported with higher prevalence patients with ulcerative colitis but their relationship is controversial. osteoporosis in these patients may be attributes to corticosteroid use, malnutrition and reduced intake of calcium and vitamin d, lower levels of sex hormones, chronic inflammation and inflammatory cytokines. the aim of study...

background: in children, inappropriate treatment of open femoral fractures may induce several complications. a few studies have compared the external fixator with flexible intramedullary nails in high-grade open femoral fractures of children. the present study aims at comparing results of these two treatment methods in open femoral fractures. methods: in this descriptive analytical study, 27 pa...

conclusions this phenomenon has been reported as a rare complication of septic arthritis and osteomyelitis. treatment of these patients is controversial and the long term results are unknown but efforts must be done for early diagnosis and anatomic reduction of femoral epiphysis. introduction slipped capital femoral epiphysis (scfe) is one of the complications of septic arthritis that occurs ra...

conclusions time plays an important role in treatment results of femoral neck fractures. to treat the fractures, closed reduction and fixation using cannulated screws may still be the best option. objectives the present study aimed to evaluate long-term results of delayed fixation of femoral neck fractures using cannulated screws. patients and methods this retrospective descriptive-analytical s...

subchondral insufficiency fracture of the femoral head (siffh) is characterized by acute onset hip pain without overt trauma. it appears as a low intensity band with bone marrow edema on t1-weighted mri. the most common course of treatment is protected weight bearing for a period of several weeks. total hip arthroplasty (tha) has been commonly used if the patient does not respond to the initial...

conclusions both methods lia and sfnb provided excellent pain relief and lower morphine consumption following tka. lia is a surgeon-controlled analgesic technique, which can be used to enhance patients’ satisfaction and reduce the pain in the very early postoperative period by surgeon independently. results group i had significantly lower morphine consumption in the first postoperative day (10 ...

conclusion the prevalence of radiological parameters associated with fai is high, even in an asymptomatic young population. this high frequency of features may suggest that the threshold values have been set too low in the current literature, or that these findings may reflect anatomical variation rather than true pathological abnormalities. background femoroacetabular impingement (fai) is one ...