INTRODUCTION: Osteoarthritis (OA) is considered to be a complex disease process that involves all components of the joint environment: cartilage, synovium, and subchondral bone. When there is joint injury, such as cranial cruciate ligament (CCL) rupture in dogs or humans, there are abnormal biomechanical stresses placed on the entire joint. Invariably, this leads to loss of the articular cartil...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate radiographic features of osteoarthritis (OA) to determine which is more closely associated with knee pain and hence might be used as a radiographic definition of OA in the community. To evaluate joint space width in normal subjects. METHODS 452 subjects from a case-control community study of knee pain (294 women, 158 men, mean age 62 years, range 40-80) underwent AP stan...

The aim of this study was to determine the expression of vaspin in the joint and investigate the distribution between paired serum and synovial fluid (SF) in osteoarthritis (OA) patients, and serum in healthy controls. The gene expression of vaspin was measured by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) in the OA joint tissues. The vaspin protein expression in the cartilage, syn...

Spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH) is an increasingly recognized syndrome associated with a specific set of clinical and imaging findings; however, determining the site of spinal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage in these patients is often difficult, and indications for surgical intervention need to be better defined. The authors report on a 55-year-old woman who presented with posture-...

Vertebral osteophyte formation is a well-documented phenomenon that is associated with degeneration and altered mechanics of the spine, both of which have been considered to be the result of aging, a purely physiologic response to load bearing, or intrinsic spinal disease as etiologic factors. (Lane et al., 1993, O’Neill et al., 1999) They are recognized radiologically as hyperostosis at the re...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that enthesophyte formation and osteophyte growth are positively associated and to look for associations between bone formation at different sites on the skeleton so that a simple measure of bone formation could be derived. METHODS Visual examination of 337 adult skeletons. All common sites of either enthesophyte or osteophyte formation were inspected by a sin...

Subscapularis tenotomy for total shoulder arthroplasty has been the standard approach for shoulder surgeons that utilize the deltopectoral approach. The risk of subscapularis insufficiency after this approach has been well documented. In order to avoid subscapularis complications, Lafosse reported a technique for total shoulder arthroplasty that utilizes a trans-deltoid approach through the rot...

This retrospective case series included five patients who underwent surgical resection of the cervical anterior osteophyte due to dysphagia. Videofluoroscopic swallowing studies (VFSSs) were performed before and after surgery on each patient, and kinematic analysis of the video clips from the VFSS of a 5-mL liquid barium swallow was carried out. Functional oral intake improved after surgery in ...