(1) From 1978 to 1983 in the Orthopedic University Clinic (Oskar-Helene-Heim, Berlin) 75 children with fractures of the distal humerus received medical treatment.
(2) Patients with femoral neck fractures treated at a department of orthopedic surgery in a university hospital and one retrospective control sample from a department of general surgery in a county hospital.
(3) The sports preparticipation examination can be worthwhile if the musculoskeletal system is examined carefully, with particular regard for the residual disabilities from previous injuries; this can be accomplished in a two-minute orthopedic examination done in addition to the usual physical examination.
(4) The patients were included in a protocol including orthopedic and US controls.
(5) Such early specialization produced men with orthopedic inclinations.
(6) The present study includes six patients, (involving ten feet), who developed hallux varus and great toe clawing after McBride procedures were performed by various orthopedic surgeons.
(7) An infant with a complete unilateral cleft of the lip and palate underwent maxillary expansion treatment using an oral orthopedic appliance.
(8) The primary application at this time is in maxillofacial surgery along with experimental use in orthopedic surgery.
(9) Seventy percent of respondents thought that their training in orthopedics was appropriate to their present practice, but half felt that their training was inadequate.
(10) Distraction lengthening has gained wide acceptance in general orthopedics and in upper extremity reconstructions.
(11) Neuropathic arthropathy is a rare case in daily orthopedic practice.
(12) Between 1969 and 1983 62 patients of the Orthopedic University Hospital Berlin were operated for a ventral fusion of the lumbar column, excluded the Dwyer spondylodesis indicated in lumbar scoliosis.
(13) A downward protraction force produced relatively uniform stress distributions, indicating the importance of the force direction in determining the stress distributions from various orthopedic forces.
(14) Efforts to provide an increased focus on the primary care activities of internists have been characterized by some as requiring a substantial increase in experience with ambulatory patients and significant training time invested in office gynecology, office orthopedics, otorhinolaryngology, and dermatology.
(15) The pharmacokinetics of the narcotic analgesic dextromoramide was investigated by means of a specific GC-MS method in 9 patients who were given a single oral dose of the drug (7.5 mg) together with an anticholinergic before undergoing minor orthopedic surgery.
(16) The results reported here on the treatment of 50 consecutive patients over 70 years of age who had sustained a fractured hip indicate that in this situation the orthopedic surgeon can be an important partner in geriatric medicine.
(17) This is not the routine medical and orthopedic roentgen technique, but is a special purpose examination with special technical requirements.
(18) There were 38 orthopedic, 35 craniocerebral, 34 abdominal, 31 thoracic, 27 maxillofacial, and 14 spinal injuries.
(19) The purpose of this study was to characterize the pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of three concentrations of the new long-acting amide local anesthetic, ropivacaine, given epidurally in 15 physical status ASA I or II patients for elective lower-extremity orthopedic procedures using a nonrandomized open-label design.
(20) There appears now to be an adequate number of orthopedic surgeons to handle the needs of the population, and Canadian training programs are providing replacements at an appropriate rate.
Orthopedist
Definition:
(n.) One who prevents, cures, or remedies deformities, esp. in children.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clinician, the orthodontist, the functional orthopedist or the functional orthodontist are fundamentally dependent on their knowledge about biophysics, biochemistry and mainly physiology.
(2) In the child born with sacral agenesis, the management of arthrogrypotic-like deformities, spinal and multisystem abnormalities poses several problems to the orthopedist.
(3) In addition, they point out the subtle ways in which less commonly encountered metabolic bone diseases, such as osteomalacia, hyperparathyroidism, and Paget's disease, might come to the attention of the orthopedist.
(4) Key statistical information regarding Orthopedic Manpower is present to make orthopedists aware of the detailed information that is currently available.
(5) Analysis of receiver-operating-characteristic parameters indicates that the clues regarding location of trauma facilitate detection of fractures by orthopedists (an 11% improvement in Az, the area under the ROC curve, F[1,12] = 49.67, p less than .001).
(6) Patients gave higher ratings to general surgeons and obstetrician-gynecologists and poorer ratings to orthopedists and anesthesiologists.
(7) From the orthopedist's point of view, it would be preferable to see the patient when at least 70 degrees of flexion is present.
(8) The treating orthopedist must first decide whether the symptoms are related to the ankle instability.
(9) The radiologic and histologic problems of differential diagnosis, and the subtle distinction between benign and malignant make decision an onerous task for surgeons, orthopedists, pathologists, oncologists and radiotherapists.
(10) The examiners were unique in that six were professors specializing in childrens' orthopedics, four were board-certified orthopedists, and five were pediatricians.
(11) Of the 28 percent who responded, 32 percent were psychiatrists, 15 percent primary care physicians and 8 percent orthopedists.
(12) However, an overview of the entire group supports the concept that abnormal motion in an immature spine or the potential for such motion should be viewed cautiously by the orthopedist, for it may herald severe neurologic compromise.
(13) The practice of preventive medicine is encouraged, and orthopedists should take an active part in advising patients about equipment and training programs to prevent coach and parental abuses that may lead to musculoskeletal long-term disabilities.
(14) Genetic conditions seen by orthopedists may be divided into Mendelian disorders, chromosome abnormalities and multifactorial conditions.
(15) Because vascular insufficiency is uncommon in orthopedic patients in this age group and this syndrome has received little attention in the orthopedic literature, orthopedists unfamiliar with this relatively easily diagnosed condition may miss it.
(17) All 10 patients had been previously misdiagnosed, frequently by neurosurgeons and orthopedists as well as by internists and family practitioners.
(18) At our hospital it was interesting to note that internists infrequently order myelography or cerebrospinal fluid analysis while orthopedists, neurosurgeons and neurologists rarely order metastatic surveys.
(19) Medical care for these patients should be done always in close cooperation of pediatricians, pediatric surgeons, radiologists, and sometimes orthopedists.
(20) The orthopedist's goals are to prevent wound infection, expedite fracture healing, and restore optimal function.