期刊: Acta Orthopaedica, 2017; 88 (1)
Background and purpose - Soft-tissue sarcoma (STS) is rare, with challenging individualized treatment, so diagnostics and treatment should be centrali......
期刊: Acta Orthopaedica, 2017; 88 (1)
Background and purpose - The quality of pin fixation of displaced supracondylar humerus fractures in children has not been assessed, and the clinical ......
期刊: Acta Orthopaedica, 2017; 88 (1)
Background and purpose - Manipulation and cast immobilization is the primary management for diaphyseal forearm fractures in children, and re-displacem......
期刊: Acta Orthopaedica, 2017; 88 (1)
Background and purpose - The incidence of Perthes' disease as reported in the literature varies widely between and within countries. The etiology of t......
期刊: Acta Orthopaedica, 2017; 88 (1)
Background and purpose - Recent evidence has questioned the effect of arthroscopic knee surgery for middle-aged and older patients with degenerative m......
期刊: Acta Orthopaedica, 2017; 88 (1)
Background and purpose - The natural history of focal cartilage defects (FCDs) is still unresolved, as is the long-term cartilage quality after cartil......
期刊: Acta Orthopaedica, 2017; 88 (1)
Background and purpose - The bone cement market for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) in Norway has been dominated by a few products and distributors. Pal......
期刊: Acta Orthopaedica, 2017; 88 (1)
Background and purpose - Medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) is undertaken in patients with a passively correctable varus deformity. We in......
期刊: Acta Orthopaedica, 2017; 88 (1)
Background and purpose - Severe backside wear, observed in older generations of total knee replacements (TKRs), led to redesign of locking mechanisms ......
期刊: Acta Orthopaedica, 2017; 88 (1)
Background - The benefit of preoperative bridging in surgical patients with continuous anticoagulant therapy is debatable, and drawing of meaningful c......
期刊: Acta Orthopaedica, 2017; 88 (1)
Background and purpose - Controversies exist regarding throm-boprophylaxis in orthopedic surgery. Using data in the nationwide Norwegian Hip Fracture ......
期刊: Acta Orthopaedica, 2017; 88 (1)
Background and purpose - Telemedicine could allow patients to be discharged more quickly after surgery and contribute to improve fast-track procedures......
期刊: Acta Orthopaedica, 2017; 88 (1)
Background and purpose - Porous tantalum cups have been introduced as an alternative to various reinforcement rings in revision hip surgery. We hypoth......
期刊: Acta Orthopaedica, 2017; 88 (1)
Background and purpose - Hemiarthroplasty (HA) is the most common treatment for displaced femoral neck fractures in many countries. In Norway, there h......
期刊: Acta Orthopaedica, 2017; 88 (1)
Background and purpose - Revision total hip arthroplasty (THA) is associated with higher dislocation rates than primary THA. We compared the risk of d......