1 Departments of Emergency and Surgery, Emergency Surgery and Trauma Surgery Unit, Trauma Center, Maggiore Hospital–Bologna Local Health District, Bologna, Italy, 2 Department of Radiology, Maggiore Hospital–Bologna Local Health District, Bologna, Italy, 3 Department of Emergency and Transplant Surgery, S. Orsola Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy, 4 Addington Hospital, Durban, KwaZul...

Address: 1Consultant Surgeon, General, Emergency and Transplant Surgery DPT, St. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy and 2Chief, Trauma Services, Rocky Mountain Regional Trauma Center at Denver Health Medical Center Chief, Department of Surgery, Denver Health Medical, Center Professor of Surgery, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery,...

Splenosis is a rare condition defined as a heterotopic auto-transplantation of splenic tissue, typically after blunt abdominal trauma. It can occur anywhere in the abdominal cavity, or even the chest. Splenosis found in clinical practice is relatively rare because most patients are asymptomatic. We report a rare case of abdominal splenosis in a 7-year-old boy, 3 years after an abdominal blunt t...

Level I trauma centers frequently see trauma at or below the ankle, which requires consultation with the orthopedic surgery department. However, as podiatry programs begin to firmly establish themselves in more Level I trauma centers, their consultations increase, ultimately taking those once seen by orthopedic surgery. A review of the literature demonstrates that this paradigm shift has yet to...

1 Department of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Surgery, Galdakao Hospital, Galdacano; 2 Department of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Surgery, Ramon and Cajal Hospital , Madrid; 3 Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, infanta leonor university Hospital , Madrid; 4 Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Donostia university Hospital , San Sebastián, Spain. Correspondence: cuellaradrian@...

Alexey Georgievich Baindurashvili, MD, PhD, Doctor of Medicine, Professor, Full member the Russian Academy Sciences, President H. Turner National Medical Research Center for Childrens Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, laureate Federation Government Prize, Honored Federation, Chief Pediatric orthopedic trauma surgeon St. Petersburg, celebrates his 75th anniversary.

Background: Surgery in the time of COVID-19 pandemic is a challenging issue while treatment of affected fracturepatients is inevitable. The present study summarizes the challenges that an orthopedic surgeon is confronting duringthe surgical treatment of fracture patients with concomitant COVID-19 infection.Methods: Demographic and fracture related data of 13 fracture patients ...

Keloid is a benign fibroproliferative tissue growth that exceeds the initial wound margins. It caused by disruption in healing phase with increased fibroblast activity and excess collagen deposition. usually develops after trauma. Orthopedic surgery inevitably causes trauma will lead to formation of keloids few patients. Keloids can cause cosmetic functional problems, thus interfere person's qu...

The "Evidence-based Telemedicine - Trauma & Acute Care Surgery" (EBT-TACS) Journal Club performed a critical review of the literature and selected three up-to-date articles on the management of splenic trauma. Our focus was on high-grade splenic injuries, defined as AAST injury grade III-V. The first paper was an update of the 2003 Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma (EAST) practice m...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study was to describe the pathophysiology of the systemic inflammatory response after major trauma and the timing of final reconstructive surgery. METHODS An unsystematic review of the medical literature was performed and articles pertaining to the inflammatory response to trauma were obtained. The literature selected was based on the preference and clini...