One hundred patients with mallet finger injuries were reviewed and examined three to five years after injury. Twenty nine patients still had symptoms consisting mainly of pain and cold intolerance. The degree of residual deformity, presence of a fracture, or delay in treatment were not related to symptoms.
A case of intracerebral and spinal vascular malformations in a patient without hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia is presented. The spinal vascular malformation was cryptic and its true nature was only revealed by MRI.
The efficacy of radiographic methods in detecting and classifying facial fractures was assessed.Thirty-one patients with maxillofacial trauma were studied with plain radiography, coronal and lateral pluridirectional tomography (PT), and axial and direct coronal computed tomography (CT). PT and CT were compared to assess how many fractures each method could demonstrate.In addition, plain films were used in combination with each special study to see how efficacious each combination was at classifying fractures into types, such as blow-out, tripod, etc. To reflect the fact that it is sometimes impossible to obtain lateral PT or direct coronal CT scans at this institution, the same analysis was done using just coronal PT and axial CT.
The term atlanto-axial rotary fixation was first coined in 1968 (Wortzman & Dewar, 1968). It is an unusual condition, which refers to fixation of the atlas on the axis usually within the normal range of atlanto-axial rotation. The diagnosis can be difficult to make on plain radiography and many cases present late only to require open surgery (Fielding & Hawkins, 1977). Recently,functional computed tomography (CT) has been successfully used in a patient with atlanto-axial rotary fixation (Kowalski et al, 1987) and we discuss its value in our patient.
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