Dislocation Menu
CarpoMetaCarpal Elbow Hand and Fingers: CMC Instability in the Metacarpals: MP joint dislocation: PIP dislocation:: Thumb CMC Joint: Thumb MP Joint: Hip Knee Patellar Dislocation:; Perilunate Dislocation; Radial … Read more
Hip
Dislocation of THA
– See: Total Hip Replacement Menu: – acetabular components – acetabular component position: – Discussion: – occurs in 1-4% of primary THA and upto 16% in revision cases; – about 74% of THR dislocations are posterior, 16% anterior, and 8% lateral; (from Cobb TK, et … Read more
Discussion of Sliding Hip Screw Devices
– See: – Screw-Plate Angle – High Angle Plates – Low Plate Angle – Nail Placement in Femoral Head and Neck – Screw Length – Sliding Screw Fixation in Subtroch Frx – Discussion: – sliding screw fixation allows for improved fracture … Read more
Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis
– Discussion: – also known as Forestier’s disease; – disease involves non-marginal syndesmophytes present at at three successful vertebral levels; – commonly there will be no disc & joint narrowing & nor osteoarthritis; – differentiated from AS, w/ marginal syndesmophytes; … Read more
Differential Diagnosis: of Limb Length Deformity
– Avascular Necrosis – Congenital angulation shortening – Congenital coxa vara – Congenital short femur – DDH – Diaphyseal fractures – Hemiatrophy – Hemiparetic cerebral palsy – Hemiatrophy (anisomelia) – Hemihypertrophy: – Hemangioma – Neurofibromatosis – Lipomatosis – Lymphangioma – Infantile septic arthritis of the hip – Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis: – Legg-Perthes disease – … Read more
Differential Diagnosis of Metabolic Bone Diseases
– See: Transient Osteoporosis: Disorder Serum Ca Serum Phos Serum AP Urine Osteoporosis Normal Normal Normal Normal Ca Osteomalacia ” ” ” Low Ca … Read more
Differential Diagnosis and Causes of Osteoporosis
– Specific Causes: – loss of estrogen: – in most women there is a rapid increase in bone loss after menopause; – this probably results from primarily by loss of estrogen; – however, all postmenopausal women have lost … Read more
Differential Diagnosis: Adult Arthritis
Acromegaly: Ankylosing Spondylitis: Avascular Necrosis: Gaucher’s Disease: Hemochromatosis: Hemophilia Hypermobility Syndrome: this is an arthropathy associated with joint laxity; it is autosomal dominant associated with joint laxity; some of these are associated w/ DDH, but others present no particular surgical problems other than the fact that the surgical scar tends to spread and become broad; associated … Read more
Diff Dx of Dorsal and Radial Sided Wrist Pain
– Landmarks: – one can palpate proximally in the snuff box radial styloid and, in mid third, the waist and distal third of the scaphoid; – at the distal end of the snuff box the STT joint is identified; – elliptical bony prominence at base of thenar muscles, consisting … Read more
Diff Dx of Low Back Pain
– Age: – Back Pain in the Child: – Younger Adults: – ankylosing spondylitis (see spondyloarthropathies) – disc disease: – spondylothisthesis – metabolic bone disease – indicated by … Read more