Predicting prognosis is the key factor in selecting the proper treatment modality for patients
with spinal metastases. Therefore, various assessment systems have been designed in order …

Background There is no consensus on the best treatment of distal femoral fractures. Patients
and methods In a prospective study, we treated 29 patients with 30 distal femoral fractures …

Purpose Prosthetic hip joint infection remains a challenging socio-economic problem. Curative
treatment is usually a one- or two-stage revision surgery, but neither of these options has …

BACKGROUND: An acromiohumeral interval narrower than 6 mm has been considered
pathologic and strongly indicative for rotator cuff tears by numerous authors. This prospective …

Background: Outcome measurement following surgery is increasingly the focus of attention
in current health-care debates because of the rising costs of medical care and the large …

Pathological femoral head and neck fractures are commonly treated by arthroplasty. Treatment
options for the trochanteric region or below are not clearly defined. The purpose of this …

The development of osteoarthritis (OA) depends on genetic and environmental factors,
which influence the biology of the chondrocyte via epigenetic regulation. Changes within the …

FIG. 1. Imaging results for a 51-year-old woman with bizarre parosteal osteochondromatous
proliferation at the proximal phalanx of her left thumb.(A) Anteroposterior and lateral …

We propose a dynamic version of the bundle method to get approximate solutions to semidefinite
programs with a nearly arbitrary number of linear inequalities. Our approach is based …

Objectives: We hypothesized that volar locked plate fixation of AO type C2 or C3 fractures
could effectively maintain radiographic reduction as shown by comparison of immediate …