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Aims. Hand trauma accounts for one in five of emergency department attendances, with a UK incidence of over five million injuries/year and 250,000 operations/year. Surgical site infection (SSI) in hand trauma surgery leads to further interventions, poor outcomes, and prolonged recovery, but has been poorly researched. Antimicrobial sutures have been recognized by both the World Health Organization and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence as potentially effective for reducing SSI. They have never been studied in hand trauma surgery: a completely different patient group and clinical pathway to previous randomized clinical trials (RCTs) of these sutures. Antimicrobial sutures are expensive, and further research in hand trauma is warranted before they become standard of care. The aim of this protocol is to conduct a feasibility study of antimicrobial sutures in patients undergoing hand trauma surgery to establish acceptability, compliance, and retention for a definitive trial. Methods. A two-arm, multicentre feasibility RCT of 116 adult participants with hand and
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Aims. Hand trauma, consisting of injuries to both the hand and the
Aims. Plate and screw fixation has been the standard treatment for painful conditions of the
Aims. Assessment of bone mineral density (BMD) with dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is a well-established clinical technique, but it is not available in the acute trauma setting. Thus, it cannot provide a preoperative estimation of BMD to help guide the technique of fracture fixation. Alternative methods that have been suggested for assessing BMD include: 1) cortical measures, such as cortical ratios and combined cortical scores; and 2) aluminium grading systems from preoperative digital radiographs. However, limited research has been performed in this area to validate the different methods. The aim of this study was to investigate the evaluation of BMD from digital radiographs by comparing various methods against DXA scanning. Methods. A total of 54 patients with distal radial fractures were included in the study. Each underwent posteroanterior (PA) and lateral radiographs of the injured
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The Motec cementless modular metal-on-metal ball-and-socket
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We investigated the clinical response to arthroscopic
synovectomy in patients with undifferentiated chronic monoarthritis
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INTRODUCTION. Tuberculosis (TB) is a public health challenge. However, musculoskeletal involvement represents 10–15% of all extrapulmonary cases. Upper extremity involvement is extremely rare. The slow progressive course of clinical symptoms and lack of radiological signs lead to difficulties in establishing early diagnosis. Hence, the patients who have tuberculosis of the
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Aim. There are no definitive criteria for the definition of osteomyelitis in the hand and
SARS-CoV-2 emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019 causing pneumonia and resulting in a pandemic, commonly known as COVID-19. This pandemic led to significant changes to our daily lives due to restrictions, such as social distancing, quarantining, stay at home orders and closure of restaurants and shops among other things. The psychological effects of this uncertainty as well as of these changes to our lives have been shown to be significant. This study is a prospective study investigating the mental effects of the pandemic on hand and
Abstract. Objectives. Falling studies have been conducted in controlled environments but not in field studies for ethical reasons; this limits the validity and applicability of previous studies. We performed field studies on existing YouTube © videos of skateboarders falling. The aims were to measure the
Aim: To assess the functional and radiological outcome of AO
Treating 10 consecutive patients requiring
The aim of the study was to compare the radiological findings of
Purpose: To review a clinical series of patients who have had the SLAC (scapho-lunate advanced collapse) procedure. Method: 50 patients with degenerative disorders of the
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Physical examination is critical to formation of a differential diagnosis in patients with ulnar-sided
Purpose: In skeletally immature children with acceptably angulated (<
= 15 degrees angular deformity at presentation) distal radius and/or ulnar fractures, to determine if a pre-fabricated
The aims of this study in relation to distal radius fractures were to determine (1) the floor and ceiling effects for the QuickDASH and PRWE, (2) the floor and ceiling effects when defined to be within the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) of the minimal or maximal scores, (3) the degree to which patients with a floor or ceiling effect felt that their