BACKGROUND Pes cavovarus has an estimated incidence of 8%-17%in patients with spina bifida(SB).The majority of the current literature on surgical treatment of cavovarus feet in children and adolescents includes a vari...
BACKGROUND The preferred treatment for distal humeral intercondylar fractures is open reduction and internal fixation.While there is consensus about the posterior approach,several posterior approaches have been develo...
BACKGROUND Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty(UKA)and high tibial osteotomy(HTO)are well-established operative interventions in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis.However,which intervention is more beneficial to pat...
BACKGROUND In the field of minimally invasive surgery(MIS)for the treatment of hallux valgus(HV),different techniques have begun to emerge in the literature concerning the distal osteotomy of the first metatarsal bone...
Studies of minimally invasive surgery for insertional Achilles tendinopathy are limited.To establish this surgery,the following techniques must be minimally invasive:Exostosis resection at the Achilles tendon insertio...
BACKGROUND Humeral shaft fractures are relatively common in adults.Rotational malalignment is reported as one complication but severe rotational deformity of the humerus is extremely rare.To our knowledge,only three c...
Coronal plane deformity around the knee,also known as genu varum or genu valgum,is a common finding in clinical practice for pediatricians and orthopedists.These deformities can be physiological or pathological.If unt...
BACKGROUND Recently,medical three-dimensional printing technology(3DPT)has demonstrated potential benefits for the treatment of cubitus varus deformity(CVD)by improving accuracy of the osteotomy through the use of an ...
BACKGROUND The morbidity and burden of knee osteoarthritis affecting millions of lives worldwide has created a constant pursuit in finding the ideal treatment for knee osteoarthritis.There has been a paradigm shift in...
The National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.U1613224;the Shenzhen Double Chain Project for Innovation and Development Industry,No.201806081018272960.
BACKGROUND The correction surgery for severely multidimensional spinal deformity in neurofibromatosis type I is very difficult and it is still a very big challenge for spine surgeons.CASE SUMMARY A 44-year-old woman p...