1. Two hundred and fifty cases of fractures of the tibia treated at the orthopedic department of the Catholic Medical College during period of January, 1966 to September, 1971 were subjected to analysis. 2. The evaluation was done according to the classification of Ellis. Among 250 cases of the tibial fractures 120 being mild grade, 63 moderate grade and 67 severe grade. 3. Of 6 groups, 1st group was treated with toe to groin cast, 2nd group was treated with functional below the knee cast, 3rd group was treated with pin & plaster, 4th group was treated with 1–2 screw fixation & wiring, 5th group was treated with plate fixation and 6th group was treated with intramedullary nailing. 4. The healing time is almost proportional to the severity of the fracture grade and also the better prognosis largely depends on the mild grade. 5. We experienced 9 cases of non-union (3.6%), 19 cases of delayed union (7.6%) in most of moderate and severe grade.
Classification ; Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary ; Groin ; Knee ; Orthopedics ; Prognosis ; Tibia ; Tibial Fractures ; Toes

Blunt trauma severe enough to cause fracture of the long bones of the lower extremity may seriously damage adjacent arteries either by direct or indirect force. Diagnosis of disruption or thrombosis by this combination of injuries, is frequently delayed until the opportunity to salvage the extremity is lost. This error will result in an excessively high amputation rate. From September 1971 to August 1972, six Cases with or without fracture were treated at the Orthopedic Department of the Catholic Medical College. Of these six, three resulted in amputation by losing the chance to make the early diagnosis of injury.
Amputation ; Arteries ; Diagnosis ; Early Diagnosis ; Extremities ; Lower Extremity ; Orthopedics ; Thrombosis ; Vascular System Injuries

Just as hyperbetalipoproteinemia is the most common kind of familiar hyperlipoproteinemia, hyperprebetalipoproteinemia or increased very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) and its associated hypertriglyceridemia is an abnormality frequently found in association with several metabolic and nutritional disorders. This VLDL abnormality is demonstrable in high percentage of insulin dependent diabetic children before they receive treatment. It is also observed in many older, overweight, insulin resistant diabetic, with poor control of diabetes. An elevation of VLDL was also observed after ethanol intake. A mild to moderate degree of VLDL elevation is the most frequently observed from of clinical hyperlipidemia. Many investigators reported that hyperprebetalipoproteinemia (hypertriglyceridemia) is associated with an increasing incidence of coronary artery disease. As opposed to hyperbetalipoproteinemia, hyperprebetalipoproteinemia is prone to influence on the development of atherosclerosis in the middle and older aged persons which indicates the importance of triglyceride determination in these aged groups. There has been relatively rare study reported on the triglyceride metabolism in patients with congestive heart failure, essential hypertension and liver disease in Korea. This study was designed to determine serum triglyceride, free fatty acid and glycerol in the disease mentioned in Busan University Hospital between jan. 1975 and December 1976 and analized the change of lipid profile in each different condition. The results were as follows; 1. The mean of serum FFA, triglyceride and glycerol in the 37 normal were as follows 502.32+/-146.54microEq/L, 111.84+/-40.53mg% and 432.00+/-212.13microM/ml. 2. 23 patients with congestive heart failure showed a significant reduction in serum triglycerides (91.96+/-27.80mg%) and a significant increase in serum free fatty acid (576.77+/-129.67microEqL) and glycerol (432.50+/-212.13microM/ml). 3. In 15 patients with essential hypertension a significant elevation of serum triglycerides (149.38+/-42.28mg%) was noted. 4. In 13 patients with liver cirrhosis, a reduction in serum triglycerides (80.50+/-34.27mg%) was noted.
Atherosclerosis ; Busan ; Child ; Coronary Artery Disease ; Estrogens, Conjugated (USP)* ; Ethanol ; Glycerol* ; Heart Failure* ; Humans ; Hyperlipidemias ; Hyperlipoproteinemia Type II ; Hyperlipoproteinemia Type IV ; Hyperlipoproteinemias ; Hypertension* ; Hypertriglyceridemia ; Incidence ; Insulin ; Korea ; Lipoproteins ; Liver Cirrhosis* ; Liver Diseases ; Liver* ; Metabolism ; Nutrition Disorders ; Overweight ; Research Personnel ; Triglycerides*

Supracondylar fracture of the humerus is the most common fracture of the elbow in children. Early accurate reduction is very important to obtain good results. Authors tried to reduce the fracture accurately under the concept of intact hinge mechanism. Forty-five displaced supracondylar fractures which were not able to be reduced by closed method were admitted for open reduction at our department from April 1981 to October 1985. They were analysed clinically. The result are as follows: 1. The patient age ranged from 3 to 14 years; 16.2% were between 7 and 8 years. 70.3% were boys Left humerus was affected in 70.3% of all cases. 2. The most common cause of fracture was falling down from height. 94.6% of fractures were extension type. The severity of displacement in 34 patients(90.2%) were grade III or 1V of Holmberg classification. 3. Only in 2 patients cubitus varus deformity was observed as residua and among the patients who were followed more than one year, only 2 had about 10 degrees of limitation of elbow motion. 4. In Holmberg's grade II, III, IV group, 22 cases(100.0%) of the both side pinned and 12 cases (80.0%) of one side pinned showed excellent or good results. Therefore, both side pinning could have contributed in obtaining more accurate reduction. 5. According to Mitchell and Adams' Criteria, 34 cases(91.9%) had satisfactory results.
Accidental Falls ; Child ; Classification ; Clinical Study ; Congenital Abnormalities ; Elbow ; Humans ; Humerus ; Methods

The spinal injuries were reported by relatively low incidence than other fracture and dislocation in the body. However, the rate of spine injury tend to increase year by year as the rate of traffic accident and industrial accident have been increased. Authors have experienced 403 cases of various type of injuries from Jan, 1966 to Aug. 1971. They were analysed as follows. 1. Out of 330 patient, males were 212 cases (64.2%) and female 118 (37.8%) Among them 74% of cases were between 20 to 40 years of age. About 51.9% of cases of the spinal injury were caused by traffic road accident. 2. The most most common fracture site in the spinal segments were between 12th thoracic spine and 2nd lumbar spine (69.0%) and most common types of spine injury was simple wedge fracture (70.7%) which is induced by flexion violence. 3. The stable injuries of the spine (69.4% 229 cases) were treated by functional methods such as bed rest, early ambulation. Injured spine were not immobilized in cast. They gave a more functional results than rigidly immobilized group. 4. 27 cases (8.2%) were complicated by paraplegia and mostly (59.3%) were caused by rotational fracture-dislocation. The common site of lesion were between D12-L2 (67.4%) 5. Among the 185 cases who were followed over 6 months, sponetaneous spinal fusion within 6 months after injury occured in 166 cases (89.7%) 76.8% of them were fused within 4 months. 6. Among the 27 paralysed cases, 3 were died within 2 weeks of admission, and 3 cases had complete recovery without residua.
Accidents, Occupational ; Accidents, Traffic ; Bed Rest ; Dislocations ; Early Ambulation ; Female ; Humans ; Incidence ; Male ; Paraplegia ; Spinal Fusion ; Spinal Injuries ; Spine ; Violence

The experience of a replacement surgery of ankylosed elbow joint by the Shiers chrome-cobalt hinge prosthesis is introduced with a brief review of literatures.
Arthroplasty ; Elbow Joint ; Elbow ; Prostheses and Implants

Authors presented the gratifying result of treatment of chronic osteomyelitis with overlying skin defect and/or poor skin condition, which developed the wide skin necrosis after saucerization and resulted the second skin graft necessary. Five cases were treated by primary extensive saucerization of tibia which left a cavity with bleeding walls. The exposed bony surface with bleeding walls was covered by delayed free skin graft when the good granulation covered the bony surface. Through this experience, delayed free skin graft is justified the best procedure in these cases to cover the post-surgical raw bone surface and to have primary healing of the bone infection. A method of hemicylindrical pedunculated skin graft to obliterate the deeply excavated surgical bony defect is introduced.
Hemorrhage ; Methods ; Necrosis ; Osteomyelitis ; Skin ; Tibia ; Transplants

Despite the technical improvements in Internal flxation of neck fracture were made in recent years, complications, such as non-union of the fracture and avascular necrosis of the femoral head, are not infrequent. Various operative techniques have been proposed to secure the reduced fracture fragment till union, and to restore or improve the circulation in the femoral head. One of them is muscle-pedicle bone graft to the fracture site of neck. It is very important if one can predict the vascularity of the femoral head prior to treatment and also the healing process of the neck fracture during treatment. In the past, there have been considerable investigations to achieve these goal, but no method universally has been accepted as reliable and practical. Among them, Intra-osseous venography (I.O.V.) and sclntimetry utilizing the isotope trace techniques were widely used in recent. Authors adopted a cephalic and trochanteric I.O.V. to observe the fracture healing and to predict viabillty of the femoral head, and also tried a new technique (Indirect cepallc I.O.V.) to perform both techniques of I.O.V. at the same time. With the ald of image Intensifler, a bone marrow needle Is inserted 1 inch below the greater trochanter of femur, and when the tip of the needle is reached 0.5 to 1.0 cm near to fracture line in the marrow cavity, about 25 cc of 75% Urograffin is Injected by speed of 1 cc per second with sereial X-rays taken at 1,3,5 and 15 minutes (trochanteric I.O.V.). Then already inserted puncture needle for trochanteric I.O.V. are more advanced through the fracture line of the neck into the femoral head. About 10 cc of 75% Urograffin Is Injected by speed of 1 cc per second with serial X-rays taken (Indirect cephallc I.O.V.). The merits of this indirect cophalic l.O.V. via trochanteric route is that it is also simple and Practical and there is no significant complication: such as septic arthritis of hlp & thrombophlebitis. Difficulties of inserting the needle through the trochanter and the neck into the head and occasional unwanted hip-arthrogram are listed as the main demerits of this technique. But these demerits can be minimized by the accurate image intensifier control. A positive trochanteric venography is one in which venous drainage is established across the fracture site with opaque contrast medium being spread out diffusely into the head, and eventually draining out into the surrounding soft tissue via draining velns. While positive cephalic venography via trochanteric route is one in which contrast medium is spread out diffusely in the head and trochanteric region via crossing veins. Hereby, we performed internal fixation and an autogenous muscle-bone pedicle graft composed of the quadratus femoris muscle in 4 cases of femoral neck fracture which are confirmed that there are head viability by using of the cephalic I.O.V.. Since then, we checked the both I.O.V. every 6 wks post-operatively. The results seemed to be good in regard to bony union in all 4 cases, and we have also found that cephalic and trochanteric I.O.V. are a useful diagnostic tool in hip fracture.
Arthritis, Infectious ; Bone Marrow ; Drainage ; Femoral Neck Fractures ; Femur Neck ; Femur ; Fracture Healing ; Head ; Hip ; Methods ; Neck ; Necrosis ; Needles ; Phlebography ; Punctures ; Thrombophlebitis ; Transplants ; Veins

The pelvis is a ring structure with strong ligamentous support. This support includes the symphysis pubis, the anterior and posterior sacroiliac ligaments, and the strong sacrospinous and sacrotuberous ligaments. Since the pelvis is a ring, disruption of any protion of the ring is always associated with disruption in another portion of the ring. Massive pelvic disruption is an important and often life threathening injury. It is usually due to a motor vehicle accident, a fall from a height, industrial injury, and so on. The authors reviewed 28 cases of unstable pelvic fracture treated at the orthopaedic department of Catholic Medical Center during the period from January 1975 to December 1980, and the injury was classified according to the Pennal and Tiles method, and analyzed the clinical data as to the cause of mechanical violence, type of fracture and treatment, post-traumatic pelvic instabilities, and the results. The persistant post-traumatic pelvic instability was assessed by physical examination, and Chamberlain and Trostlers stress Roentgen view of the pelvis. The clinical results obtained were as follows: 1. The incidence of the unstable pelvic fracture was 17.7% (28) of all pelvic fractures (158). The incidence of injury in male was approximately 5 times more frequent than female, and most of the patients were in the 3rd to 5th decade of their life. The causes of injury were road accident (54%), coal mine accident and fall from a height in orders. 2. The four-rami fracture with posterior disruption due to the lateral compression injury was the most common type of unstable pelvic fractures. 3. In conservatively treated patients, the pelvic instability persisted in 37.5% (6 in 16 cases) of the cases and all of them necessitated the joint stabilizing operation. Twelve cases were treated operatively. Among them, performed operations include wiring of symphysis pubis in 2 and sacroiliac joint fusion in 4 within 4 weeks after injury. But for the other 6 cases in which pelvic instability persisted in spite of the sufficient conservative treatment, sacroiliac joint fusion or sacroiliac joint fusion together with a symphyseal plate fixation were done. 4. Satisfactory results was obtained in 62.51% (10 in 16 cases) of nonoperated cases, and 91.7% (11 in 12 cases) of operated group. Authors consider that the most important step in the management of traumatic pelvic instability are; firstly the early recognition of the correlation of the fracture-fragments; the fracture mechanism, and the possible presence or the post-traumatic pelvic instability, and secondly finalizing the therapeutic plan. Early surgical stabilization of the duration of the treatment and the residual disability.
Clinical Study ; Coal ; Female ; Humans ; Incidence ; Joints ; Ligaments ; Male ; Methods ; Motor Vehicles ; Pelvis ; Physical Examination ; Pubic Bone ; Sacroiliac Joint ; Violence

No abstract available in English.
Child ; Hip ; Humans