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ABORDAJE LATERAL A LA COLUMNA VERTEBRAL XLIF-DLIF

El abordaje XLIF o lateral directo (DLIF), es un planteamiento novedoso que consiste en poder trabajar el disco intervertebral desde la parte lateral de la columna, evitando por tanto los problemas inherentes a la via postererior habitual y relacionados con ...

LESIONES DE COLUMNA EN PERSONAS MAYORES

Artículo publicado en la revista Zona Hospitalaria. ...

Intra-articular dislocation of patella

The case of a patient aged 73 years who, following an accidental fall on a staircase, suffered an acute intraarticular dislocation in the left knee-cap is presented. This exceptional dislocation presented incarceration of the proximal kneecap pole in the femoral ...

A randomised comparison of a foot pump and low-molecular-weight heparin in the prevention of deep-vein thrombosis after total knee replacement.

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Unilateral non-traumatic radiocarpal volar dislocation in a child. A long-term evolution

We report an eight year-old female with trisomy 21 referred to our clinic for limitation of wrist mobility. The patient had been diagnosed and treated by polyarticular juvenile chronic arthritis for six months. Clinical and radiological study revealed volar radiocarpal ...

Medial dislocation of the talus. Medium term evolution

Fifty-seven year old patient with open medial dislocation of the left talus, with suprasyndesmotic fracture of the fibula, due to indirect traumatism. The following were carried out: washing, cleaning the talus and the soft parts, Friedrich, reduction, fixing with Kirschner ...

Primary recurrent medial subdislocation of both patellae. Long-term review of an exceptional case of miserably malalignment syndrome

We present a long-term review of a girl aged 11 years and 4 months with medial primary recurrent subluxation of both patellae of several months evolution associated with miserably malalignment syndrome. Not one case of medial recurrent dislocation of the ...

Developmental anterior dislocation of the radial head resulting from a congenital solitary osteochondroma of the proximal ulna in an infant.

A 4-month-old female infant was brought to our office by her parents, who had noticed a lump on the child's right elbow. Examination revealed a hard, painless lump in the antero-external region that was not reducible in flexion-extension or in ...

L3-L4 dislocation without neurological lesions

Vertebral dislocations are high energy injuries that rarely occur in the low back, but are found more frequently at the level of the thoracolumbar and sacrolumbar junctions. Dislocations of the mid-lumbar vertebrae are exceptional, with only 16 cases found in ...

Valgus slipped capital femoral epiphysis

Valgus slips of the epiphysis are rare, making radiological diagnosis difficult. A high degree of clinical suspicion is required to diagnose the condition. The patient was a 13-year, 7-month-old girl who had been suffering from pain in the left thigh ...

Cuboid-navicular tarsal coalition in an athlete.

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Open fracture of a cervical transverse process as a result of a bull-horn wound

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Post traumatic retroperitoneal fibrosis as a cause of low-back pain

We present the case of a male patient with post traumatic retroperitoneal fibrosis whose main clinical expression was low-back pain. Diagnosis was established using CAT-scan and MRI, which revealed a large mass of soft tissue that almost entirely enveloped the ...

Answer to the Letter to the Editor of A. Hidalgo-Ovejero concerning ´Intradural lumbar disc herniation: report of five cases with literature review´ (by L. G. Ducati, M. V. Silva, M. M. Brandão, F. R. Romero, M. A. Zanini; Eur Spine J. doi:10.10

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Primary obturator-muscle pyomyositis in immunocompetent children

PURPOSE: Primary pyomyositis in immunocompetent children in non-tropical regions (countries with temperate climates) is very uncommon. It is rarely found in the intrapelvic muscles, and even more rarely in the obturator muscles. We try to draw attention to the potential occurrence ...

Disc Herniation With Gas

Summary of Background Data: Intradiscal gas is associated with tumors, infection, trauma, therapeutic and diagnostic spinal procedures, deposit illnesses, and disc degeneration. The existence of gas within the spinal canal has been seen on 17 occasions, of which 13 were ...