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B Henrikson

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PubMed1992

Proximal tibial skeletal traction for femoral shaft fractures in children. Treatment to discard or retain.

A proximal tibial skeletal traction in the treatment of femoral shaft fractures in the growing child has been reported to result in complications such as knee pain, knee joint subluxation, and growth disturbance. For the last 15 years, the authors used a single screw (instead of the Kirschner wire) inserted in the tibia perpendicular to the surface and well below the tibial tubercle physis. With the traction applied to this screw and the leg in a 90-90 position or resting on a Braun splint, none of the previously described complications were observed. This modification of the proximal tibial skeletal traction is a simple, quick, and safe method in the treatment of femoral shaft fractures in children.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1983

Torsion in femoral fractures in childhood. A longitudinal investigation.

A photogrammetric method developed for measurement of femoral neck anteversion was used to evaluate the torsion in 28 femoral fractures sustained in childhood and treated conservatively. Spontaneous correction of the initial torsion of 10 degrees to 30 degrees to less than 10 degrees was the rule in a growing femoral bone within 5 to 10 years after trauma.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1978

Long-term study of Crohn's disease.

Nineteen children and 160 adults with Crohn's disease were examined. The children had been under treatment between 1972 and 1974. There were 11 boys and 8 girls. Their main symptoms were general malaise, diarrhea, abdominal pains, anemia and weight loss. Clinical examination showed pallor, malnutrition, and abdominal tenderness on palpation. In 7 of 19 cases, rectosigmoidoscopy showed pathological changes. Radiologically, the most frequent site of the disease was observed to be in the ileocecal area. Since conservative therapy is associated with the risk of grave local and general complications, resection of the affected intestinal segment was the method of choice. Resection must be carried out through healthy tissues. Although the intestinal absorption of B12, fat and bile acids deteriorated after resection of the ileum, the general state of health of the patient improved. Body weight, serum albumin, serum iron concentration and the total iron binding capacity increased and the patient developed normally. Relapses occurred in 8 of the 19 cases. From the large number of adult patients who were studied, it could be shown that the risk of a relapse was greater in the ileal and ileocolic disease than in disease restricted to colon.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1974

BCG-Osteomyelitis.

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Antitubercular Agents↗
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Pain as an indicator of bone metastasis.

Patients with breast or prostate cancer routinely referred for bone scintigraphy were evaluated for the presence of skeletal pain, as determined by a self administered questionnaire. Pain was a common finding, whether or not metastatic disease was present, and occurred in over half of patients. Although most patients with bone metastases did report bone pain, a significant fraction (21% of breast and 22% of prostate patients) were asymptomatic. A distinct minority of individual anatomic regions of metastasis were painful: pain was reported in 23% of sites of breast metastases and 15% of metastatic prostate cancer sites. Of all sites at which pain was present, metastases were demonstrated in only about one half. These results indicate that pain is not a reliable indicator of the presence of location of metastatic bone disease.

Adolescent↗