Aims. The aim of this study was to compare outcomes of guided growth and
Aims. The aims of this study were to determine the effect of osteophyte excision on deformity correction and soft tissue gap balance in
Our study describes the clinical outcome of total ankle replacement (TAR) performed in patients with moderate to severe
It has been suggested that a supramalleolar osteotomy can return the load distribution in the ankle joint to normal. However, due to the lack of biomechanical data, this supposition remains empirical. The purpose of this biomechanical study was to determine the effect of simulated supramalleolar
Aims. We compared the clinical outcomes of curved intertrochanteric
Aims. The purpose of this study was to compare the clinical and radiographic
outcomes of total ankle arthroplasty (TAA) in patients with pre-operatively
moderate and severe arthritic
We studied whether the presence of lateral osteophytes
on plain radiographs was a predictor for the quality of cartilage
in the lateral compartment of patients with
Cubitus
Transtrochanteric curved
We reviewed the outcome of distal chevron metatarsal osteotomy without tendon transfer in 19 consecutive patients (19 feet) with a hallux
Cubitus
Aims. Cubitus
We reviewed the outcome of curved intertrochanteric
We studied 37 patients with
Aims. The aims of this study were to determine the proportion of patients
with outlier
Interest in unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) for the treatment of medial compartment osteoarthritis has increased in recent years with apparent improvement in the long-term results. This is a result of improved surgical technique, patient selection, and implant design. In an effort further to improve patient selection we analysed the relationship between the pre-operative alignment of the knee and the anatomical findings at the time of surgery. We compared these findings with the indications for UKA. From 4021 total knee arthroplasties we compared intra-operative observations with the pre-operative clinical data in order to identify knees with isolated, medial, compartment changes, which would have been ideal candidates for UKA. We found that only 247 of the knees (6.1%) met anatomical qualifications for isolated, medial, unicompartmental osteoarthritis, and of these, only 168 (4.3%) met clinical standards ideal for UKA. Pre-operative alignment showed a significant relationship with patterns of disease. Logistic regression revealed a relationship between pre-operative alignment and intra-operative findings resembling a Gaussian distribution. Patients with a pre-operative
We reviewed 12 patients with congenital hallux
We have studied the effect of shortening of the femoral neck and
We treated 47 patients with a mean age of 57 years (22 to 88) who had a proximal humeral fracture in which there was a severe
We reviewed 22 children with cubitus