Tuberculosis of hand and wrist: Varied clinical presentation and functional outcome by surgical intervention in 13 cases.

A prospective study of 13 cases with tuberculosis of hand and wrist was presented with mean age of patients being 42.7 years (range 18 months to 84 years). Pain, swelling and difficulty in movement of adjacent joints were the most common presenting complaints. The discharging sinus, abscess & nerve compression were also observed in some cases. Out of 13 cases, bone involvement was seen in one case, joint involvement in five cases, soft tissue involvement in five cases and two cases had both soft tissue and joint involvement. All patients had undergone operative intervention for confirmation of diagnosis and improvement in function. Surgeries like open biopsy, debridement and tenosynovectomy were performed. Depending upon drug sensitivity on culture and histopathology report, standard anti-tuberculous treatment (ATT) was commenced under supervision of Infection Disease expert. Hand function was evaluated by modified Green and O'Brian score. The mean score was 58.84 (35-70) before any intervention and it improved to 89.23 (60-100) at 6 months follow up after surgical intervention and ATT. In conclusion, surgery may help for early functional recovery and for encouraging patient to use their hand for activities of daily living.

Results and complications of head-preserving techniques in chronic neglected shoulder dislocation: a systematic review.

BACKGROUND: Humeral head-preserving procedures may be needed for chronic neglected shoulder dislocation because the presenting age of the patient is often reported to be less than 45 years. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the results of the various head-preserving procedures for chronic anterior dislocation (CAD) and chronic posterior dislocation (CPD). This review also aimed to evaluate the results of conservative neglect for CAD. METHODS: PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane library databases were queried for studies that reported on results of head-preserving procedures for CAD or CPD and for studies that reported on the results of conservative neglect for CAD. Case reports, review articles, acute dislocations, and fracture-dislocations were excluded. The results of the different techniques were pooled for further evaluation. RESULTS: Seventeen studies were selected for qualitative analysis. These were further subdivided into 9 studies for the CAD group and 11 studies for the CPD group. In the CAD intervention group, 53 shoulders in 7 studies were managed by 5 different head-preserving techniques. The choice of procedure to stabilize the shoulder after open reduction varied between coracoid transfer, capsulolabral repair, remplissage, and Putti-Platt procedure and acromiohumeral K-wire fixation. High resubluxation rates and early arthrosis were reported after open reduction techniques for CAD. In the CAD conservative group, 8 shoulders in 2 studies were managed by conservative methods. In the CPD group, the 2 most common techniques, McLaughlin or modified McLaughlin and bone grafting, were used to treat 74 shoulders in 7 studies and showed good functional outcomes. CONCLUSION: The choice of open reduction and stabilization technique for CAD was highly variable between the different studies and led to a wide variation in the reported outcomes with a high number of complications such as resubluxation and early arthrosis. The conservative treatment of CAD led to poor functional results. The choice of treatment for CPD was mostly between 2 techniques-McLaughlin and modified McLaughlin reconstruction or the bone graft reconstruction-and they consistently led to good functional outcomes with less complications.

Avulsion of the fibular head post-total knee replacement.

We report a case of an avulsion of part of the fibular head during a primary total knee replacement for osteoarthritis. Post-operatively the patient developed a foot-drop. However, there was no clinically demonstrable instability of the knee. The patient was managed conservatively, the foot-drop recovered completely and the knee remained clinically stable. We observed that excessive hyperextension and/or a varus strain on the knee during pressurisation while cementing could have led to the injury. We advise caution while using this manoeuvre for pressurisation. This is the first injury of its kind reported in the literature.