A total of 70 patients with acute spinal cord injury were identified in Tottori-ken from January 1988 to December 1989. The population of Tottori-ken during that period was 0.61 million. Therefore the inci dente of traumatic spinal cord injury of Tottori-ken was 56.7 per million population per year. The average age was 48.5 years, which was significantly older in Japan compared to that in Australia, California andTaipei.
The Pennig model external fixator is a new device, which allows early excercise of the wrist joint without displacement of the fragments, by dynamic axial external fixation. We used this device for treating 6 patients. Internal fixation was supplemented in one patient, and bone grafting in one. The range of motion in the wrist joints with the external fixator was 20 to 58 degrees (mean
We have studied the follow up assesment of seventeen patients treated by endoprosthetic replacement of femoral head. Physical and rentgenographic examination was performed for twelve patients, and telephone interview for five patients.
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