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C H Schweikert

Publications and source records attributed to C H Schweikert.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1979

[Skateboards: a dangerous toy? (author's transl)].

Eighteen persons (average age 12.4 years) with injuries from skateboard accidents were admitted between 1 March to 5 June, 1977--4.4% of all accidents and 7.5% of all sports accidents treated during this interval. These kinds of accidents are now in fourth place as to frequency, after accidents during play (81), bicycling (45), football (35) and motorcycling (28). To avoid skateboard accidents attention must be paid to technically high-grade equipment, reasonable skill and training, and restriction of skateboarding to enclosed areas, as well as protective clothing.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1978

[Osteosynthesis and simultaneous anchorage of a plastic hip cup in an unstable acetabulum (author' transl)].

Attempts at total hip replacement in the presence of unstable acetabula--which may be caused by a recent fracture or pseudarthrosis--are doomed to failure if conventional implantation technics are used. Such attempts lead inevitably to a rapid loosening of the cup. This article describes a newly developed implant which simultaneously re-establishes acetabular stability while solidly anchoring the cup. Use of this implant contributes to early patient mobilization and undisturbed healing of fractures and pseudarthroses.

Acetabulum↗
PubMed1976

[Spontaneous fractures and tumors (author's transl)].

During childhood, pathologic fractures are found in systemic diseases of the skeleton (e.g. osteogenesis imperfecta or rachitis), but especially when bone tumors or tumorlike changes are present. Conservative measures such as continuous traction and application of a plaster cast lead to healing of the fracture only in a limited number of cases. Treatment of benign and potentially malignant and tumors and of tumorlike growths by excochleation and by resection and subsequent filling of the defect with autologous spongiosa and in some cases metallic fixation respectively has proved useful. The surgical treatment of malignant tumors depends on the king of tumor and its localization.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1976

["Zuggurtungs"-hip joint endoprosthesis (author's transl)].

On the basis of theoretical and experimental investigations to the problem of endoprosthetic replacement of the hip joint and the forces concerning the anchorage of the prosthesis a new model of prosthesis was developed and realized for practical use. In this paper this new "Zuggurtungs-Hüftendoprothese" and the biomechanical principles are described in detail. The biomechanically derived postulations realized in the new prosthesis which are of primary importance to avoid the mechanical complications of loosening and breaking of the prosthesis are also decisive when optimal materials are used. They allow the implantation without bone cement by the primary acievable stable anchorage.

Biomechanical Phenomena↗