Medical Must-See: Replacement hip hops to new location
Nine years after a revised total hip arthroplasty, an 84-year-old patient found herself back in hospital with an “extremely rare” case of intrapelvic cup migration,…
Tag: Orthopaedics
Spot Dx — What’s the best cure for this finger cyst?
A 56-year-old man, with a background of osteoarthritis affecting the thumbs and fingers of both hands, presents with an increasingly painful mass affecting the right…
Medical Must-See: Sprint for glory leaves man with bilateral Achilles tendon rupture
To loosely borrow from Oscar Wilde, to lose one’s Achilles tendon to rupture is a misfortune; to lose both simultaneously is just pure bad luck…
Doctors won’t see gender parity in most surgical specialties during their lifetime: Aussie study
It will take eight generations, or more than 180 years, before the number of female orthopaedic and cardiothoracic surgeons is the same as their male…
Spot Dx — What’s behind this painful shoulder?
Ralph, 41, presents with a painful right shoulder. Test your clinical know-how by taking the quiz below. If you select the wrong answer, have another…
Extra antibiotic does not prevent infection in arthroplasty: study
Adding vancomycin to antibiotic prophylaxis in patients undergoing arthroplasty does not prevent surgical site infections, shows a real-world Australian study. In fact, the risk of…
Medical Must-See: Extremely rare case of pure ankle dislocation
When a young man presented to ED with a swollen ankle after falling from a small height, his doctors did not expect to stumble upon…
Orthopaedic surgeon is not a monster but he did fail, defamation trial told
Associate Professor Munjed Al Muderis is not a monster, but there is a public interest in reporting when his surgical operations fail, as they have for dozens…
‘I was scared’: Dr Dinesh Palipana about turning whistleblower over spinal unit
The place Dr Dinesh Palipana was taken to rebuild his life after a catastrophic car accident paralysed him from the chest down was a place…
Medical Must-See: Patient withstands ‘glistening white’ foot tumour for three years
When an elderly man in India presented to hospital with a large ovoid swelling and numbness in his foot, his doctors did not expect to…
