Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to M I Kapicioğlu.
Ipsilateral elbow and forearm fractures are quite rare in children. We present a Monteggia lesion with ipsilateral supracondylar humerus fracture in a 13-year-old girl. Through early surgical management, a successful result was achieved. We believe that, to minimize any initial or subsequent complications in such fractures, early surgical management should be the first treatment choice.
Generally, aneurysmal bone cyst is considered to be a benign lesion that occurs rarely. Its etiology and treatment vary considerably, but curettage and grafting is the widely accepted treatment. Due to the nature of the disease recurrence is always expected. It rarely regresses and we report here a case that showed an improvement spontaneously after open biopsy. Follow-up for more than 4 years has shown no progression.
We report a child with de Barsy syndrome, which is a very rare, genetically transmitted clinical entity associated with mental and growth retardation, severe cutis laxa, joint laxity and various ocular and skeletal system findings. The patient was operated to treat her orthopedic disabilities. Typical findings of this case with eight-year follow-up beginning from birth are described and compared with previously reported cases. The main aim of this paper was to describe the diagnostic and therapeutic difficulties of this rarely encountered syndrome.