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H A MENDELSOHN

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PubMed1961

Hardware in orthopedic surgery.

Insertion of foreign material into the human body has been performed with increasing frequency during the past 50 years and has received added encouragement in the antimicrobial era. Nevertheless, no matter how rational the utilization of these inflexible foreign bodies may seem, their introduction into the human framework is accompanied by evidence of nature's intolerance to hardware when substituted for living tissue. Numerous surgical complications occur following the use of internal fixation and prosthetic devices in orthopedic surgery.

Fracture Fixation, Internal↗
PubMed1959

Laminectomy for herniated intervertebral disc.

In a study of 59 patients surgically treated by various surgeons for relief of herniated lumbar intervertebral disc accompanied by symptoms that persistently recurred or had become resistant to conservative therapy, it was noted from review of hospital and office records that laminectomy either greatly relieved or entirely abated symptoms in 83 per cent of the cases. Postoperative complications reported by the surgeons who did the operations consisted of one death and five wound infections. Contrast myelography and electromyography, used in almost all cases in the series, appeared to be valuable adjuncts in the diagnosis of herniated lumbar intervertebral discs. The most common site of the lesion in this series was between the fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae. Strain upon lifting was the most commonly reported precipitating factor.

Humans↗