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Muscular Dystrophy, Facioscapulohumeral*

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Tibial Fractures*

The application of the arthroscope to the shoulder joint has evolved in recent years for the purpose of diagnosis and treatment. This paper presented 11 cases with various shoulder diseases treated by arthroscopy during the period from January, 1984 to September, 1985 in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, College of Medicine, Soon Chun Hyang University. The advantages of the arthroscopy were as follows: 1. The arthroscopy made it easier to diagnose the unsolved cases by direct biopsy on the pathologic lesions in the joint. 2. The damage on the inside and outside of the shoulder joint was minimal and the post-operative incision scar was acceptable cosmetically. 3. The limitation of the joint motion did not remain due to early exercise post-operatively. 4. The complications such as infection, neurovascular injury, scuffing of joint cartilage, etc. could be avoided.
Arthroscopes ; Arthroscopy ; Biopsy ; Cartilage ; Cicatrix ; Diagnosis ; Joints ; Orthopedics ; Shoulder Joint ; Shoulder

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Child* ; Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary* ; Humans

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Pregnancy*

Thirty-seven patient who had forearm bone fracture were treated by four different methods at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Soonchunhyang University Hospital from Jan. 1979 to March 1982. The obtained results are as follow; 1. Nineteen cases out of 37 cases of the forearm bone fracture were both forearm bones, 10 cases were ulna and 8 were radius fracture. 2. Twenty-three cases out of 37 were closed and 13 cases were open fracture, respectably. 3. The applied treatment were manual reduction with cast immobilization, intramedullary naliing, plate and screw fixation and combined. 4. Mean duration of primary bone union of the forerm bone fracture which were treated by plate and screw was 12. 4 weeks, combined fixation was 12.8 weeks, intramedullary nailing was 15.3 weeks and that of manual reduction and cast was 16 weeks in order. 5. Functional result was classified according to the rating system of Smith and Sage. The best method was plate and screw and the worst was manual reduction and cast immobilization. 6. D.C.P. fixation seems to be one of the best method in this series. Combined method, in a way of D.C.P. for radius and I–M nailing for ulna, is a method when shortening of operation time is inevitable.
Adult ; Forearm ; Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary ; Fractures, Bone ; Fractures, Open ; Humans ; Immobilization ; Methods ; Orthopedics ; Radius ; Radius Fractures ; Ulna

Rigid posterior fixation of the atlas to the third and fourth cervical spine was achieved in a patient in whom axis pedicle fracture and dislocation of axis on the third cervical spine. Althouth there was no evidence of neurologic disorder, marked instability of axis on the third cervical spine should inevitably be fused in any procedures. An anatomically contoured loop was secured to the posterior arch of the atlas and the laminae of the third and the fourth cervical spine by sublaminar wirings. The technique has the advantage over bone graft, either alone or with cement, in that it affords rigid stabilization, allows early mobilization and some flexion movement of atlanto-occipital joint.
Atlanto-Occipital Joint ; Dislocations ; Early Ambulation ; Humans ; Nervous System Diseases ; Spine ; Spondylolisthesis ; Transplants

Significant traumatic disruption of the ligaments about the knee can occur in a child. Recently several reports have described knee ligament, injuries with open growth plates. And these reports contradict the notion that complete tears of knee ligaments occur only after growth plates have closed. The youngest patient with medial collateral ligament injury reported before was a 4-year-old boy by Joseph and Pogrund in 1978. But authors experienced a case of ruptured medial collateral ligament of the knee in a 2-year and 1-month old boy, who seemed to be youngest with the ligament injury.
Child ; Child, Preschool ; Collateral Ligaments ; Growth Plate ; Humans ; Infant, Newborn ; Knee ; Ligaments ; Male ; Rupture ; Tears