When a Hemi is Only Semi-right William Macaulay, MD Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Columbia University, New York, NY Grand Rounds presented on October 20, 2011 at the O’Keefe Auditorium, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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Samantha Spencer, MD is a pediatric orthopaedist at Children’s Hospital, Boston, specializing in trauma, lower extremity, vascular anomalies, osteogenesis imperfecta and skeletal dysplasias. Pediatric supracondylar fractures are the most common elbow fractures in children. Approximately 7-10% of supracondylar fractures and up to 50% of severely displaced Type III supracondylar fractures present with a neurologic injury: [...]
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Jesse Jupiter, MD is a Hand & Upper Extremity Orthopaedic Surgeon, at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Fractures of the distal end of the humerus, while relatively uncommon, continue to stimulate discussion as to the optimal method of treatment. Unfortunately, there are relatively few Level I or even Level II studies to guide the fracture surgeon.1 [...]
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Michael Weaver, MD is an Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon, at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. The reduction and fixation of displaced femoral neck fractures has an unacceptably high rate of failure, particularly in the geriatric population. Reconstruction with either hemiarthroplasty or total hip arthroplasty (THA) is the accepted treatment for these fractures. In active patients reconstruction with [...]
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Brandon Earp, MD, is an Hand & Upper Extremity Surgeon, at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Instructor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Your patient comes in after a mechanical fall onto an outstretched hand. A significant deformity of the wrist and edema are noted clinically and the patient’s discomfort is obvious. Radiographs demonstrate [...]
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Somatic Cells for Nonunions Matt Jimenez, MD University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Lutheran General Hospital, Chicago, IL Grand Rounds presented on Jan 20, 2011 at the O’Keefe Auditorium, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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David Lhowe, MD, is an Orthopedic Trauma Surgeon, at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Approximately 200,000 total hip replacements and an equal number of hemiarthroplasties are performed annually in the United States. With the marked success of this procedure, patients are able to maintain active lifestyles [...]
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R Malcolm Smith, MD, FRCS Chief of the Orthopedic Trauma Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. George Dyer, MD Orthopaedic Surgeon Brigham and Women’s Hospital Instructor of Orthopaedic Surgery Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA People often ask, “How was Haiti?” For a while, we found it the [...]
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Orthopaedic & Disaster Surgery in Haiti, 2010 R Malcolm Smith, MD, FRCS Chief, Trauma Service, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA George Dyer, MD Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA Grand Rounds presented on April 22, 2010 at the O’Keefe Auditorium, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
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Mitch Harris, MD, is Chief of the Orthopedic Trauma Service, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. Here, Dr Harris shares a very useful algorithm for evaluating patients with trauma to the cervical spine. Imagine getting called to the Emergency Department to evaluate a painful and swollen [...]
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