Ortopediia travmatologiia i protezirovanie
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Ortop Travmatol Protez · Jul 1989
[Use of a rod apparatus for external fixation in the treatment of hand injuries].
The authors describe an external fixation rod apparatus and the results of its application in 28 patients with various injuries. The apparatus was used in the patients with fractures of phalanges of the fingers and metacarpal bones for extra-articular fixation after the elimination of contractures and dislocations in the joints, in cases of combined epidermatoplasty, arthrodesis, etc. The method of treatment had to be changed only in 2 patients. In all other cases the effect of the rod apparatus was positive.
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Ortop Travmatol Protez · Jul 1989
Case Reports[Diagnostic errors in hematogenic osteomyelitis of the pelvic bones].
The authors have analysed the caused of frequent diagnostic errors in the primary diagnosis which reach 51.2% in 41 patients with hematogenic osteomyelitis of the pelvis. A high percentage of diagnostic errors is caused by more frequent occurrence of hematogenic osteomyelitis of the pelvis in the adults aged 20 to 60 and older who are "not expected" to have hematogenic osteomyelitis which is considered to be a disease characteristic of children and adolescents, by an inadequacy between the provoking etiologic factor and the subsequent development of the disease and by disguise of hematogenic osteomyelitis of the pelvis with symptoms of other frequently occurring diseases. The character of the diagnostic errors is clearly linked with the localization of the process in the bones of the pelvis.