– Adamantinoma – Basal Cell Carcinoma: – Calcinosis – Chondrosarcoma: – the most common bony malignancy in the hand; – CMC Boss: bony growth at bases of second and third metacarpals; – special radiographs can demonstrate the osteophytes, which may be resected if symptoms warrent; – associated with ganglia at least 30% of the time, … Read more
– See: – Revision TKR: – TKR Menu – Discussion: – asymmetrical bone loss often occurs in the proximal tibia; – CT scan have shown that once one get more than 1 cm below joint line quality and quantity of the supporting cancellous bone diminishes precipitously; … Read more
– See: Wound Management Menu / Dressings.org – Optimization of Wound Dressing: – purpose of a dressing is to protect the wound from diseccation and prevent postoperative contamination; – normal dry skin contains up 10 to 1000 bacteria per gram of tissue while skin in exposed and moist areas contains up … Read more
– PreOp Planning – most important step in reconstruction of any intra articular frx, is to expose the fracture w/o devasclarizing the fragments; – treatment plan: – open reduction; – elevation of the depressed plateau; – bone … Read more
Local Tenderness – Osteosarcoma (common)—————————– Yes – Ewing’s sarcoma: (common) ———————— Yes – chondrosarcoma ———————————– Yes – Osteochondroma (Osteocartilaginous Exostosis) – Fibrous Dysplasia ——————————– Yes – Eosinophilic granuloma ————————— Yes – Aneurysmal bone cyst – Prostatic Ca: – most of prostatic ca mets are blastic & do not require … Read more
– Diff Dx: – Osteosarcoma – Osteochondroma – Fibrous Dysplasia – Ewing’s sarcoma: – Osteoid Osteoma – Eosinophilic granuloma – Aneurysmal bone cyst – Simple bone cyst – Chondrosarcoma: – Fibrous Histiocytoma – … Read more
– Osteosarcoma (common) – Enchondroma (relatively common) – Ewing’s sarcoma: diaphyseal region; – Periosteal chondroma (just proximal to insertion of deltoid) – Osteochondroma – Chondroblastoma … Read more
– Osteochondroma – Osteosarcoma – Giant Cell Tumor of Bone – Ewing’s sarcoma: (diaphyseal region); – Chondroblastoma – Chondromyxoid fibroma – Fibrous Dysplasia – Eosinophilic granuloma – Aneurysmal bone cyst – Simple bone cyst … Read more
– Discussion: – mechanism of injury: – distinguish between high velocity injuries verus low velocity injuries (as this reflects incidence of vascular and nerve injuries); – w/ low-velocity knee dislocations occurance of vascular injury is about 5% and nerve injury is about … Read more
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