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M Waldis

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PubMed1994

[Direct screwing in spondylolysis: results and observations on indications].

Ten patients suffering from persisting low-back pain underwent direct repair of spondylolysis L5 with hook screws. At a follow-up three to four years after the operation, four patients showed good and six unsatisfactory results. Four patients had a secondary procedure. Average age was relatively high in the study group compared with the literature, and pain tended to be chronic. In five of the six patients with a poor clinical result, radiological consolidation of the lytic defect could not be demonstrated. We are discussing indications based on a literature review.

Adult↗
PubMed1991

[Rehabilitation of paraplegic patients].

Comprehensive management and care of spinal-cord-lesioned patients start at the site of injury or at the moment of the onset of paralysis, depend with its consequences on the treatment in the acute phase, pass to the reactivation and rehabilitation phase and continue throughout all life of such patients. Considering that even a complete transverse lesion is only an instable, temporarily balanced situation, every small complication can destroy this balance and may lead from total independence to total dependence. Orthopedic, neurological, neurosurgical, urological, physio- or ergotherapeutic, socio-professional or other aspects in the field of comprehensive care and rehabilitation can never be analyzed or managed singularly, but have to be seen always in the context of the whole final outcome. The coordinating role of the paraplegiologist and the importance of adequate spinal cord injury units is stressed. The changing pattern of aetiopathogenesis or epidemiology of spinal cord lesions (increase of medical causes such as vascular lesions, tumors, infection disease) and the definition for rehabilitability due to the higher amount of elderly people will bring a new challenge for all careers in the field of rehabilitation.

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[Nerve compression syndrome caused by synovial cyst of the hip joint].

Synovitis of the iliopectineal bursa have been described in pigmented villanodular synovitis, synovial chondromatosis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and necrosis of the femoral head. We report a case of enlargement of such a cyst in necrosis of femoral head and consecutive osteoarthritis, leading to entrapment of the femoral nerve. Simple drainage of the cyst did resolve pain for a short period and only elimination of the primum pathologicum agens did definitively release pain, irradiating to the ipsilateral leg.

Diagnosis, Differential↗
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[The Haglund exostosis--a surgical indication and a minor intervention?].

From 1946 to 1985 a total of 594 patients with Haglund's disease were treated. 165 of the 266, who had been surgically treated were questioned extensively and 32 of them clinically and radiologically examined. Besides details of indication, surgical technique and perioperative issue, the subjective result as compared with the morphological state after removal of exostoses, was noted particularly. This necessitated the introduction of new X-ray quantification techniques in addition of the procedures described in literature. 73% good, and further 20% acceptable results confirm the indication. Nevertheless the success of the method depends largely on a good surgical technique and especially on the post-operative care.

Adolescent↗