Combined humeral shaft fracture and shoulder dislocation injury is rare. Consequently, there are no standard treatment protocols for this injury. We present a case of a 33-year-old man who slipped off a motorcycle and incurred a right humeral shaft fracture and right shoulder dislocation. We performed closed reduction of the shoulder followed by intramedullary nailing. The protocol is different from most in existing papers and results in a good prognosis. However, gentle reduction is essential to avoid iatrogenic neurovascular damage.
Thirty-six patients with tinea unguium were treated with 200mg of itraconazole daily for 7 days each month, We suggested that a patient who had a lesion in the thumbnail needed 5 months of treatment for mycologial cure, while in a patient without thumbnail lesion, 3 months of treatment was enough.
: Changes in arthroscopic findings before and after acetabular labrum resection for osteoarthritis of the hip were studied.Acetabular labrum resection for osteoarthritis of the hip was performed on 27 hips in this study. Before acetabular labrum resection, detachment of the acetabular labrum was observed in 26 hips and inversion was observed in 1 hip. These labrums were always interposed between the femoral head and the acetabulum.Marked damage of the articular cartilage in 19 hips was seen in the area corresponding to the acetabular labrum. A second arthroscope (1-1.5 years later), demonstrated improvement of the articular cartilage in 11 hips, but, the degree of fibrillation and irregularity on the articular cartilage was increased in 6 hips. We conclude that the interposed acetabular labrum may be the cause of the cartilage damage and that acetabular labrum resection should be carried out in such cases.
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