We report two cases of fracture-dislocation of the thoracolumbar spine without neurological deficit and outline the putative mechanisms responsible for the escape of neural tissues from injurious ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 39-year-old left-hand dominant man with a history of left Monteggia fracture-dislocation that was treated ...

The treatment of thoracic spine fracture–dislocations is now well established with the recent progress in spine surgery. Although most affected individuals have a degree of spinal cord injury (SCI), ...

The patient is a 74-year-old man with a past medical history of hypertension who initially presented to an urgent care facility with left knee pain after falling directly onto his knee. At the urgent ...

1 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Iskenderun State Hospital, Iskenderun, Turkey 2 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Medical Faculty, University of Kahramanmaras, Kahramanmaras, Turkey Correspondence ...

THE last report on progress in management of fractures and dislocations that appeared in the Journal was written by Dr. G. W. Van Gorder in 1939. 1 He discussed the notable advances in this branch of ...

The author caused an accident while attending a driving school aiming to acquire a normal motorcycle license. The date of the accident was January 28, 2023, a very cold and rainy afternoon. Up to that ...

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott was transported to a local hospital for surgery after suffering a compound fracture and dislocation of his right ankle during Sunday’s game against the New York ...

Any break in a bone is known as a fracture. A fracture can be closed (the bone is disrupted but the skin is intact) or open (the bone is exposed through the skin). A Galeazzi fracture involves remote ...

Standard x-ray technic has aided in demonstrating the extent of bone injury and ligamentous damage in ankle fractures. Anterior-posterior views of both ankles, inverted 20° to 25°, on the same film ...