August 01 News Headlines

These are radiology news updates from other sites

August 08, 2001   Symptomatic Retrosternal Dislocation Of The Clavicle - Internet Journal of Rescue and Disaster Medicine The authors report a case of a 24-year-old man who injured his right shoulder playing football. After reviewing the plain x-rays of his shoulder, the patient was sent home after explaining that he had a minor sprain of the sternoclavicular joint. The patient returned 72 hours later with pain, severe swelling on the sternoclavicular region, dilated veins on the right upper limb, dysphagia and had difficulty in breathing...       August 06, 2001   Changes in Surface and Radiographic Deformity After Universal Spine System for Right Thoracic Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis - Spine Conclusions: Almost half of initial back surface correction is lost by 2 years. Segmental vertebral translation measurements most strongly correlate with segmental angle of trunk inclination measurements during follow-up. Rib-hump reassertion is best explained by unwinding of the thoracic cage tensioned by surgery rather than through relative anterior spinal overgrowth. Spine and thoracic cage factors determine rib-hump correction, so surgical disruption of the latter by costoplasty may prevent rib-hump reassertion. Results of scoliosis sur-gery should include surface data...   The Torg–Pavlov Ratio in Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy - Spine Conclusions: The Torg–Pavlov ratio is significantly lower in patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy compared with a nonspondylotic, nonmyelopathic population. It could possibly be used to predict the likelihood of developing cervical spondylotic myelopathy...   Case report: Severe toxic osteoblastoma of the humerus associated with diffuse periostitis of multiple bones - Skeletal Radiology Toxic osteoblastoma is a rare variant of an uncommon primary bone tumour that has been described only once before in the world medical literature...   Case report: Pigmented villonodular synovitis of the hip presenting as a retroperitoneal mass - Skeletal Radiology We present an unusual case of diffuse pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) of the hip presenting as a large retroperitoneal mass in an asymptomatic 39-year-old man...   Case report: Synovial osteochondromatosis complicating pilon fracture of the tibia - Skeletal Radiology A case of previously undiagnosed synovial osteochondromatosis complicating a tibial pilon fracture is presented. The entrapment of osteochondral bodies within the fracture margin prevented complete reduction of the fracture and necessitated surgical intervention...