Case presentation The technical and clinical results of two consecutive arthroscopic shavings of an osseous cam protrusion are described in our patient, a 50-year-old Caucasian man with complaints of femoroacetabular impingement. At 12 weeks after the first arthroscopic shaving, our patient still experienced pain. Using a range of motion simulation system...

Case presentation We describe a 60-year-old Indian man with rheumatoid arthritis diagnosed 15 years ago who had minimal response to multiple therapies with disease-modifying agents and whose arthritis symptoms surprisingly remitted when he was started on a specific serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant, three years ago, for co-morbid major depression. This remission...

Introduction In a Monteggia fracture dislocation, it is important to reduce the ulnar fracture completely. Extensive plastic deformation of the proximal ulna may make reduction by closed manipulation impossible.
Case presentation We report the case of a four-year-old Caucasian boy in whom the plastic deformation of the proximal ulna was reduced, and this...

Case presentation We report the case of an 80-year-old Caucasian woman with a subtrochanteric fracture originally treated using a trochanteric gamma nail which failed, resulting in a nonunion and fracture of its proximal end. The nonunion was revised with the removal of the broken trochanteric gamma nail, application of a condylar...

We report the case of an osseous hemangioma located in the seventh cervical vertebra with reactive osteoid formation and non-typical findings in the radiological and the histopathological examination, mimicking metastasis of a malignant tumor. To our knowledge, this is the first description of such a case in the literature.
Osseous hemangioma...

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Accelerated tibial fracture union in the third trimester of pregnancy: a case report Mudussar A Ahmad , Damayanthi Kuhanendran , Irvine W Kamande and Charalambos Charalambides (Abstract and full text available) Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008, 2:44
We present a case of accelerated tibial fracture union in the third trimester...

Case presentation An 11-year-old Caucasian boy presented with pain in the left wrist after a fall. Radiographs in the emergency department demonstrated a lunate that was divided into palmar and dorsal parts, causing a misdiagnosis of fractured lunate. Magnetic resonance imaging was then used to differentiate between the two diagnoses.
Conclusion Very few...

We report a case of trifocal, diaphyseal fracture of the radius with a mid-diaphyseal fracture of the ulna in a 53-year-old Caucasian, British, right-hand dominant woman involved in a head-on collision with another vehicle. The management of this rare fracture configuration is described and alternative treatment options discussed.
Unilateral, trifocal, diaphyseal...

Conclusion Radiofrequency ablation is a newer treatment modality for osteoid osteoma that, being minimally invasive, offers comparable results to surgery with a significantly lower morbidity. To the best of our knowledge, treatment of osteoid osteoma in the foveal region of the femoral head with radiofrequency ablation has not been reported to...

Solid aneurysmal bone cysts have been of great interest to pathologists because they may be mistaken for malignant tumors, mainly in cases of giant cell tumors or osteosarcomas, because of cellularity and variable mitotic activity. It is rather obvious that the correlation of clinical, radiological and histological findings is necessary...

Case presentation The cast was removed from the leg of a 45-year-old Caucasian woman. Significant muscle atrophy and dense skin scales were present but the underlying skin surface was relatively healthy with only small pitted 1-2 mm ulcers. No pathogenic organisms were cultured from this environment.
Conclusion It seems likely that skin can...

To the best of our knowledge, the bone scintigraphy findings of a case of Morquio's syndrome have never before been published. We present our case report to add to the knowledge we have of this rare disease.
Scintigraphic Features of Morquio's Syndrome: A Case Report Bjoern Kitzing; Kevin C Allman J Med...

Open Access Cases Journal, edited by Richard Smith, publishes case reports from all areas of medicine. The journal will publish any report that is understandable, ethical, authentic, and includes all information essential to its interpretation. Cases Journal accepts submission of case reports from any physician.
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Age and Ageing, Vol 29, 454-456, Copyright © 2000 by British Geriatrics Society
Case report. Infective discitis as an uncommon but important cause of back pain in older people
V Goel, J Young and C Patterson
Case reports. Two elderly patients (aged 70 and 80 years) presented with severe back pain and...

Conclusion Pyogenic spondylitis is an extremely rare complication after kyphoplasty. When these patients develop recurrent back pain postoperatively, the diagnosis of pyogenic spondylitis must be considered.
Primary pyogenic spondylitis following kyphoplasty: a case report Markus D Schofer , Stefan Lakemeier , Christian D Peterlein , Thomas J Heyse and Markus Quante Journal...

Traumatic quadriceps rupture in a patient with patellectomy: a case report Chezhiyan Shanmugam and Nicola Maffulli
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2007, 1:146
We present a 42-year-old male who experienced a unilateral left quadriceps tendon rupture following assault by four people. Twenty-seven years before this injury, the patient had suffered ipsilateral...

Conclusion Fat embolism syndrome may occur as a fulminant complication following femoral fracture repair in the presence of a concomitant atrial septal defect with right-to-left shunt. Thus, in patients with cardiac right-to-left shunts, femurs should not be nailed intramedullary, not even in cases of isolated injuries
Post-traumatic fulminant paradoxical fat embolism syndrome...

Congenital anterolateral tibial bowing and polydactyly: a case report
Edmond G Lemire Journal of Medical Case Reports 2007, 1:54 doi:10.1186/1752-1947-1-54
Published 23 July 2007
Abstract (provisional) Congenital anterolateral bowing of the tibia is a rare deformity that may lead to pseudarthrosis and risk of fracture. This...

Case report Distinctive spinal changes in two patients with unusual forms of autosomal dominant endosteal hyperostosis: a case series Ali Al Kaissi , Franz Varga , Shahin Zandieh , Klaus Klaushofer and Franz Grill
Journal of Medical Case Reports 2007, 1:142
Endosteal hyperostosis was encountered in a 26-year-old-man and his 6-month-old daughter....

Snapping hip, or coxa saltans, is defined as a clinical condition where a usually painful, audible snap occurs during hip flexion and extension. Its causes can be divided into external, internal or intra-articular origin. Accurate diagnosis is a prerequisite to successful treatment. We report a rare cause of snapping hip...

a case report
Ali Al Kaissi , Martin Skoumal , Katharina Roetzer , Franz Grill and Klaus Klaushofer Journal of Medical Case Reports 2008, 2:51
Melorheostosis has not previously been reported to be a part of TDO and an extensive review of the literature suggests that the constellation of hair, tooth...

J Orthop Surg (Hong Kong). 2006 Dec;14(3):346-9. Severe scoliosis associated with Costello syndrome: a case report.Motosuneya T, Asazuma T, Tsuji T, Watanabe H, Nakayama Y, Nemoto K. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Namiki, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan. Costello syndrome is characterised by dwarfism, unique cutaneous lesions, a distinct facial...

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva is a rare genetic disease characterized by widespread soft tissue ossification and congenital stigmata of the extremities. We report on a male child followed for ten years since the age of 3 years and 9 months, when the diagnosis was made. He was born with bilateral hypoplasic...

In 1937, Rees published the first reported case of a high-pressure injection (HPI) injury to the finger. This injury involved diesel fuel. Prior to Rees's report, Hesse had described a similar injury in 1925.
Although over 100 case reports of HPI injuries of the hand can be found in the literature,...