Abstract Indications Ultrasound guidance is the optimum technique for placing needles into soft tissue structures when they are well visualized using this imaging method. In broad terms, ultrasound is used for injections and biopsies, but both the structures to be…
Abstract Vertebroplasty was first described by Herve Deramond and his colleagues from Amiens, France, in 1987. They were faced with a patient with an aggressive, destructive, but otherwise benign hemangioma of a C2 vertebral body. There seemed to be no…
Etiology and Prevalence Congenital dislocation of the hip is a condition that presents in infancy in approximately 1 in 9000 live births. Although childhood presentation of the condition is uncommon, the occult form of developmental dysplasia occurs frequently. This consists…
Etiology Of all causes of hemophilia, types A and B are most associated with intraosseous and intraarticular bleeding. Hemophilia A (classic hemophilia) results from a deficiency of factor VIII. Hemophilia B (Christmas disease) is due to a functional deficiency of…
Infections of the soft tissues range clinically from indolent, low-grade conditions to fulminant disease that may be life-threatening within a matter of hours. A wide range of organisms can produce an infection, although there are common culprits. Clinical confusion may…