Almost one thousand patients underwent either total hip replacement or spinal surgery in which diamorphine 0.5-1.0 mg was injected intrathecally. Approximately one half of the arthroplasty patients and one third of the spinal patients required no other post-operative analgesia. In the remainder, analgesics were not required for 12 hours post-operatively. The benefits of the technique and possib...

It’s an old adage that states something to the effect that critical examination of your surgical complications will be more instructive in your development as a surgeon than unconditional admiration of your successes. The development of a complication following a surgical procedure is very troubling for a caring and dedicated surgeon, principally because of the morbidity and additional sufferin...

Bone scanning with radioactive isotopes has become a routine method for investigating disorders of bone. Departments of nuclear medicine throughout the country offer diagnostic facilities for a variety of problems which affect not only bone, but also the heart, kidney, brain, liver, pancreas and spleen as well as disorders of the blood. Indeed the use of radionuclides is now an important and es...

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475 W. Gillespie, Dean Dunedin School of Medicine, PO Box 913, Dunedin, New Zealand. D. Murray, MD, FRCS, FRCS (Orth), Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Windmill Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LD, UK. P. J. Gregg, MD, FRCS, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery The Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK. D. Warwick, MD, FRCS, FRC...

Volume 2 • Issue 5 • 1000145 J Spine ISSN: 2165-7939 JSP, an open access journal Spinal Cord Venous Infarction Presumed to be Caused by a Lumbar Vertebral Body Malformation after Vertebral Complession Fracture Shinji Tanishima1*, Satoru Fukata1, Hiroyuki Ishi1, Yasuo Morio1, Toshiyuki Dokai2 and Akihiko Nishihara3 1Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Misasa Onsen Hospital, Japan 2Department of O...

*Han, C Whan (A-Taejon St. Mary's Hospital); +**Kim, J Man; *Kim, W Yoo; *Kim, J Young; *Kim, H Kwan; *Ryu, J Duk; *Lee, K Won *Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Taejon St. Mary's Hospital, Taejon, South Korea. +**Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, KangNam St. Mary's Hospital, Seoul, South Korea. Kang-Nam St. Mary's Hospital Department of Orthopaedic Surgery 505, Ban Po-Dong, Seo Cho-Ku Seoul,...

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, CO 80045, USA Division of Trauma Surgery, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, 8006 Zurich, Switzerland Department of Trauma-, Hand-, and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Ulm, 89081 Ulm, Germany Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Denver Health Medical Center, School of Medicine, Unive...