BACKGROUND Hip fracture is a common musculoskeletal injury in the elderly requiring surgery worldwide.The operative mainstay of intra-capsular hip fractures is arthroplasty with a smaller proportion for fixation.AIM T...
BACKGROUND The effect of posterior spinal fusion(PSF)incorporating the pelvis on an ambulatory patient’s ability to mobilize after the fusion is not well understood.AIM To see whether a posterior spinal fusion with p...
The present letter to the editor is a commentary on the study titled“Rates of readmission and reoperation after operative management of midshaft clavicle fractures in adolescents”.There is a debate over whether surg...
BACKGROUND Slipped capital femoral epiphysis(SCFE)occurs in adolescents and has an incidence of around 10 per 100000 children.Children presenting with a unilateral SCFE are 2335 times more likely to develop a contrala...
BACKGROUND Tillaux fractures occur primarily in adolescents due to the pattern of physeal closure and are classified as Salter-Harris type III physeal fractures.Operative management with screw fixation is recommended ...
BACKGROUND Arthrodesis is the surgical fusion of a diseased joint for the purposes of obtaining pain relief and stability.There have been numerous fixation devices described in literature for foot and ankle arthrodesi...
Bisphosphonates are a class of drugs used as the mainstay of treatment for osteoporosis.Bisphosphonates function by binding to hydroxyapatite,and subsequently targeting osteoclasts by altering their ability to resorb ...
BACKGROUND Locking plate fixation in osteoporotic ankle fractures may fail due to cut-out or metalwork failure.Fibula pro-tibia fixation was a technique prior to the advent of locking plates that was used to enhance s...
Symptomatic metastatic bone disease affects a large proportion of patients with malignant tumours and significantly impairs patients’quality of life.There are still controversies regarding both surgical indications a...
Tibial shaft fractures are common injuries among the pediatric and adolescent population. Conservative treatment remains the preferred treatment. However, over the last two decades, there has been an increasing trend ...