Right-Handed Girls With Rt-Ais Measured Using Holtain Equipment Have Upper Arm Length Asymmetry (Right-Minus-Left) Which Is: 1) Relatively Longer On Scoliosis Curve Convexity; 2) Significantly Associated With Scoliosis Curve Severity (Cobb Angle And Apical Vertebral Rotation); And 3) Transient, Decreasing With Age And Years After Menarche [1,2]. The Aim Is To Test Whether The Right Upper Arm Length Relative Overgrowth And Spinal Deformity Severity Were Associated With Right Or Left Upper Arm Length Size-For-Age. 94 Right-Handed Girls With Rt-Ais, Age 11–18 Years, (Mean Cobb Angle 46 Degrees, Range 10–102 Degrees), Were Evaluated Using A Harpenden Anthropometer For Upper Arm Length Asymmetry, Plotted Against Right And Left Upper Arm Length Standard Deviation Scores (Sds), Calculated From 378 Normal Girls, Age 11–18 Years.Aim:
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Hip fractures are a major challenge and impose high demand on orthopaedic services. DHS has been proved to be a gold standard method of treatment in uncomplicated extracapsular fractures. The introduction of Intramedullary devices has provided us with a wider choice of construct. Since there was conflicting literature evidence comparing the outcomes of DHS and IMHS, we set out to analyse the same in our practice. Forty patients in each group operated in the year 2000, comparable in fracture pattern, age and sex distribution were studied. The operating time, fluoroscopic exposure, blood loss, complications (Intra-op, Post-op and Deaths), duration of hospital stay and the discharge destinations were studied from the clinical notes and Hospital information system. Statistical analysis was carried out using SPSS for all the available data. Statistically, the DHS has a lesser duration of surgery, lower fluoroscopic exposure and lesser duration of hospital stay. However, clinically it appears that the IMHS is fraught with more complications.
