Background: Dog bite injuries to the upper extremity can result in traumatic neurovascular and musculotendinous damage. Currently, there are no clear guidelines dictating which patients may benefit from early operative exploration. The purpose of this study was to identify clinical variables that were predictive of abnormal intraoperative findings in patients who sustained an upper extremity do...

Introduction: This study aims to ascertain if there are any differences in supracondylar fractures between children under seven years of age and those above 7 years of age. Materials and Methods: All cases of displaced humerus supracondylar fractures that required surgical stabilization were identified and retrospectively reviewed. Demographic data, mode of injury, associated neurovascular inju...

BACKGROUND Routine surgical exploration after penetrating upper extremity trauma (PUET) to exclude arterial injury leads to a large number of negative explorations and iatrogenic injuries. Selective non-operative management (SNOM) is gaining in favor for patients with PUET. The present study was undertaken to assess the validity of SNOM in PUET and to present a practical management algorithm. ...

Objective:Evaluate access related complications contributing to adverse outcomes in patients undergoing retroperitoneal anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF). MethodsA retrospective analysis was conducted of prospectively collected data on ALIF a multidisciplinary setting at our institution from January 2007 December 2021. Patients’ demographics, comorbidities, exposure and postoperative with...

Introduction All pelvic, perineal and obstetrical procedures potentially expose patients to pelvic nerve injuries. Damages happening during interventions (Primary Nerve Injury – PNI) are due to coagulation, suturing, ischemia or cutting and induce troubles of sensation, pain and dysfunctions starting immediately after the procedure or after a short interval of several days. In contrast, nerve l...

  Background: The standard method for repair of an injured peripheal nerve is epineural repair with separate sutures. Herein we describe a method in which the nerve is sutured with continous sutures. In fact this method has not been utilized for nerve repair previously and our purpose was to compare it to the standard method. If it proved to be successful it would replace the standard method in...