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  1. After septic failure of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) and multiple revision operations ... regain mobility and quality of life are an above-the-knee amputation or knee arthrodesis. The decision process for the pa...

    Authors: Sven Hungerer, Martin Kiechle, Christian von Rüden, Matthias Militz, Knut Beitzel and Mario Morgenstern
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:443
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  2. Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a severe complication following knee arthroplasty....Therapeutic strategies comprise a combination of surgical and antibiotic treatment modalities and aim to eradicate the ...

    Authors: Franziska Eckers, Christoph J. Laux, Sebastian Schaller, Martin Berli, Yvonne Achermann and Sandro F. Fucentese
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2021 22:884
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  4. The Medici project consisted in archeological and paleopathological researches on some members of the great dynasty of the Italian Renaissance. The remains of Giovanni de’ Medici, so-called “dalle Bande Nere” ...

    Authors: Gino Fornaciari, Pietro Bartolozzi, Carlo Bartolozzi, Barbara Rossi, Ilario Menchi and Andrea Piccioli
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2014 15:301
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  5. A total of 80 stumps were treated surgically. The frequency of excess soft tissue in above-knee amputation cases was higher than that in below-knee amputation (p = 0.007). Bone spur occurred more frequently in th...

    Authors: Kemin Liu, Tao Tang, Anqin Wang and Shouchang Cui
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:48
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  7. The effectiveness of microprocessor-controlled prosthetic knee joints (MPKs) has been assessed using a variety of outcome measures in a variety of health and health-related domains. However, if the patient is ...

    Authors: Patrick JR Theeven, Bea Hemmen, Peter RG Brink, Rob JEM Smeets and Henk AM Seelen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:333
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  8. Obesity is common in persons with a lower limb amputation, an amputation can also lead to further weight gain. Data regarding the prevalence of obesity in the Dutch population with a lower limb amputation are ...

    Authors: Terezka S. Mollee, Pieter U. Dijkstra, Rienk Dekker and Jan H.B. Geertzen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2021 22:769
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  9. Lower extremity amputation patients represent a frail group with extensive comorbidity. Transfemoral amputation is a high-risk procedure with 37–50% risk of mortality in the first year. Substantial blood loss ...

    Authors: Anna Trier Heiberg Brix, Tine Nymark, Hagen Schmal and Martin Lindberg-Larsen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:1088
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  10. Periprosthetic fractures after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) are an increasing problem and challenging to treat. The tibial side is commonly less affected than the femoral side wherefore few studies and case r...

    Authors: Anna Janine Schreiner, Florian Schmidutz, Atesch Ateschrang, Christoph Ihle, Ulrich Stöckle, Björn Gunnar Ochs and Christoph Gonser
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2018 19:323
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  11. The incidence of endoprosthesis failure has been well studied, but few studies have described the clinical characteristics of deep infection in tumor prostheses. This study aimed to analyze the characteristics...

    Authors: Takeshi Morii, Hideo Morioka, Takafumi Ueda, Nobuhito Araki, Nobuyuki Hashimoto, Akira Kawai, Kazuo Mochizuki and Shoichi Ichimura
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:51
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  12. Distal femoral resection knee arthroplasty may be a viable option for several indications other than bone tumors. Resection knee arthroplasty appears to be becoming more common, but patients requiring this typ...

    Authors: Yasemin Corap, Michael Brix, Claus Emmeluth and Martin Lindberg-Larsen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:199
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  13. The aims of this work are to present a classification of “complex fracture” and “simple fracture”, to compare their features, treatments and prognosis in patients with giant cell tumour with pathologic fractur...

    Authors: Liming Zhao, Jiapei Chen, Yongcheng Hu, Zhaoming Ye and Kun Tao
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:1061
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  14. A recent study of adults aged ≥50 years reporting knee pain found an excess of radiographic knee osteoarthritis (knee ROA) in symptomatic males compared to females. This was independent of age, BMI and other c...

    Authors: Rosie J Lacey, Elaine Thomas, Rachel C Duncan and George Peat
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2008 9:82
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  15. The purpose of this study was to determine the mid-term clinical, radiographic and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) outcomes and define the survival rate in patients who had undergone revision total knee...

    Authors: Jake von Hintze, Mika Niemeläinen, Harri Sintonen, Jyrki Nieminen and Antti Eskelinen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2021 22:336
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  16. The treatment of end-stage tuberculosis (TB) of the knee remains a significant clinical challenge, and clinical data are lacking. This study aimed to retrospectively determine the outcome of single-stage knee ...

    Authors: Xin Tang, Jing Zhu, Qi Li, Gang Chen, Weili Fu and Jian Li
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2015 16:197
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  17. We compared the functional outcome between conventional and high-flexion total knee arthroplasty (TKA) using kneeling and sit-to-stand tests at 1 year post-operative. In addition, the patient’s daily functioni...

    Authors: Paul J. P. van der Ven, Sebastiaan van de Groes, Jorrit Zelle, Sander Koëter, Gerjon Hannink and Nico Verdonschot
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:324
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  18. Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a common disease based on degenerative pathological changes. Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is an effective treatment for end-stage of KOA. However, only volume adaptation can be ac...

    Authors: Zhengya Zhu, Tao Tang, Sheng Pan, Ziqian Sun, Chaoran Huang, Ruxin Ruan, Zhongyuan He, Shaoyu Liu, Xin Zheng and Kaijin Guo
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:694
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  19. The aim of this study is to evaluate the functional outcomes and complications after non-fusion knee arthrodesis with a modular segmental intramedullary implant used for infected total knee arthroplasty revisi...

    Authors: Kadir Büyükdoğan, Yusuf Öztürkmen, Barlas Goker, Melih Oral, Tolga Atay, Korhan Özkan, Ömür Çağlar and Mehmet Ayvaz
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:889
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  20. The aim of this study was to compare the relative performance of total knee replacement constructs and discern if there is variability in performance in currently commonly used prostheses in the New Zealand Jo...

    Authors: MC Wyatt, CF Frampton, MR Whitehouse, KC Deere, A Sayers and D Kieser
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2021 22:721
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  21. Little information exists on the presentation of symptomatic venous thromboembolism (VTE) in orthopaedic surgery when a defined protocol for thromboprophylaxis is used. The objective with this study was to est...

    Authors: Lasse J Lapidus, Sari Ponzer, Hans Pettersson and Edin de Bri
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2013 14:177
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  22. Knee arthrodesis with intramedullary (IM) nail or external fixator (EF) is the most reliable therapeutic option to achieve definitive infection control in patients with septic failure of total knee arthroplast...

    Authors: Giovanni Balato, Maria Rizzo, Tiziana Ascione, Francesco Smeraglia and Massimo Mariconda
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2018 19:361
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  23. Angioleiomyoma is a very rare benign solitary soft tissue neoplasm originating from smooth muscle layer of blood vessels. The tumor is usually located in the subcutis or the superficial fasciae, but less often...

    Authors: Chenxi Cao, Zhengming Cao, Guangyu Liu, Songyang Liu, Yanqi Ye and Tiezheng Sun
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2018 19:163
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  24. Knee bone shape differs between men and women and the incidence of knee osteoarthritis (OA) is higher in women than in men. Therefore, the purpose of the present study was to determine whether the observed dif...

    Authors: Barton L. Wise, Jingbo Niu, Yuqing Zhang, Felix Liu, Joyce Pang, John A. Lynch and Nancy E. Lane
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2018 19:331
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  25. Contemporary strategies for prehabilitation and rehabilitation associated with total knee arthroplasty (TKA) surgery have focused on improving joint range-of-motion and function with less emphasis on neuromusc...

    Authors: Anna Maria Risso, Marietta L. van der Linden, Andrea Bailey, Peter Gallacher and Nigel Gleeson
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:547
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  26. Antimicrobial agents are administered via intramedullary antibiotic perfusion (iMAP)/intrasoft tissue antibiotic perfusion (iSAP) to infected lesions to control osteoarticular and soft tissue infections. Conti...

    Authors: Yukichi Zenke, Yasuhito Motojima, Kohei Ando, Kenji Kosugi, Daishi Hamada, Yasuaki Okada, Naohito Sato, Daichi Shinohara, Hitoshi Suzuki, Makoto Kawasaki and Akinori Sakai
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2024 25:36
    Content type: Case Report Published on:

  27. Surgical site infections are more frequent among patients with rheumatic disease. To what extent this is related to immunosuppressive antirheumatic drugs is unclear, as is the value of discontinuing medication...

    Authors: Ylva Borgas, Anders Gülfe, Mikael Kindt and Anna Stefánsdóttir
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:410
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  28. Previous studies suggested that pre-operative comorbidity was a risk factor for worse outcomes after TKA. To our knowledge, studies have not examined whether postoperative changes in comorbidity impact pain an...

    Authors: Maren E. Hilton, Terence Gioe, Siamak Noorbaloochi and Jasvinder A. Singh
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:421
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  29. Patients with lower extremity amputation frequently suffer from socket-related problems. This seriously limits prosthesis use, level of activity and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). An additional proble...

    Authors: Ruud A. Leijendekkers, J. Bart Staal, Gerben van Hinte, Jan Paul Frölke, Hendrik van de Meent, Femke Atsma, Maria W. G. Nijhuis-van der Sanden and Thomas J. Hoogeboom
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:484
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  30. In the light of both the importance and large numbers of case series and cohort studies (observational studies) in orthopaedic literature, it is remarkable that there is currently no validated measurement tool...

    Authors: Bart G Pijls, Olaf M Dekkers, Saskia Middeldorp, Edward R Valstar, Huub JL van der Heide, Henrica MJ Van der Linden-Van der Zwaag and Rob GHH Nelissen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2011 12:173
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  31. Recent findings support a connection between mitochondrial dysfunction and activation of inflammatory pathways in articular cells. This study investigates in vivo in an acute model whether intra-articular admi...

    Authors: Carlos Vaamonde-García, Jesús Loureiro, Marta N. Valcárcel-Ares, Romina R. Riveiro-Naveira, Olalla Ramil-Gómez, Laura Hermida-Carballo, Alberto Centeno, Rosa Meijide-Failde, Francisco J. Blanco and María J. López-Armada
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:254
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  34. Amputation impairs the ability to balance. We examined adaptation strategies in balance following dysvascularity-induced unilateral tibial amputation in skilled prosthetic users (SPU) and first fitted amputees...

    Authors: Ágnes Mayer, József Tihanyi, Károly Bretz, Zsolt Csende, Éva Bretz and Mónika Horváth
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2011 12:118
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  35. In clinical practice, visual gait observation is often used to determine gait disorders and to evaluate treatment. Several reliability studies on observational gait analysis have been described in the literatu...

    Authors: Jaap J Brunnekreef, Caro JT van Uden, Steven van Moorsel and Jan GM Kooloos
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2005 6:17
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  36. The Margin of Stability (MoS) is a widely used objective measure of dynamic stability during gait. Increasingly, researchers are using the MoS to assess the stability of pathological populations to gauge their...

    Authors: Fraje Watson, Peter C. Fino, Matthew Thornton, Constantinos Heracleous, Rui Loureiro and Julian J. H. Leong
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2021 22:597
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. Neuromuscular choristomas (NMCs), are extremely rare developmental lesions that, have been previously established associated with recurrent fibromatosis after surgery, leading to several operations or even amp...

    Authors: Wen Guo, Hong Wang, Tao Chen, Wei Yang, Shu-Feng Wang and Shan-Lin Chen
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2022 23:464
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  38. Survival and reconstruction constitute important challenges in multimodal treatment of osteosarcoma of the proximal tibia. The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy and prognosis of neoadjuvant chem...

    Authors: Junqi Huang, Wenzhi Bi, Gang Han, Jinpeng Jia, Meng Xu and Wei Wang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2018 19:315
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  39. This study aimed to investigate the effect of abnormal Core binding factor-β expression on proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis of chondrocytes, and elucidate the relationship between Core binding fact...

    Authors: Guangdi Li, Mi Zhang, Yuan Huang, Jiafei Yang, Lianghong Dong, Hao Shi, Long Li, Riguang Liu and Jiangwei Li
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2021 22:174
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. It is very rare for clear cell sarcomas (CCS) to arise in the bone. During diagnosis, it is important to distinguish primary CCS of bone from bone metastasis of melanoma because this difference fundamentally c...

    Authors: Yuta Kubota, Kazuhiro Tanaka, Masanori Hisaoka, Tsutomu Daa, Tatsuya Iwasaki, Masanori Kawano, Ichiro Itonaga and Hiroshi Tsumura
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2021 22:99
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  41. We examined the effects of fat deposition on radiographic osteoarthritis (OA) to determine the role of obesity in the pathogenesis of radiographic OA.

    Authors: Lihui Wen, Ji-Hyoun Kang, Yi-Rang Yim, Ji-Eun Kim, Jeong-Won Lee, Kyung-Eun Lee, Dong-Jin Park, Tae-Jong Kim, Yong-Wook Park, Sun-Seog Kweon, Young-Hoon Lee, Yong-Woon Yun, Min-Ho Shin and Shin-Seok Lee
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2016 17:192
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. The flap closed-incisions healing after 3D-printed prosthesis implantation in Chronic Osteomyelitis with Soft Tissue Defects (COSTD) is critical. This study aimed to explore the safety and effectiveness of Neg...

    Authors: Zhiyu Lin, Xinling Zhang, Yujie Chen, Yun Tian, Xin Yang and Zhenmin Zhao
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2023 24:827
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  43. Tactical populations, such as military, firefighter and law enforcement populations, are known to suffer a relatively high number of musculoskeletal injuries, with the lower extremity of notable concern. The a...

    Authors: Kate Lyons, Mick Stierli, Ben Hinton, Rodney Pope and Robin Orr
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2021 22:115
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. The aim of the study was to evaluate the relation between demographic, injury-related, clinical and radiological factors of patients with tibial plateau fractures and the development of acute compartment syndr...

    Authors: Axel Gamulin, Anne Lübbeke, Patrick Belinga, Pierre Hoffmeyer, Thomas V. Perneger, Matthieu Zingg and Gregory Cunningham
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2017 18:307
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. Polyneuropathy is a complication of diabetes mellitus that has been very challenging for clinicians. It results in high public health costs and has a huge impact on patients' quality of life. Preventive interv...

    Authors: Cristina Dallemole Sartor, Ricky Watari, Anice Campos Pássaro, Andreja Paley Picon, Renata Haydée Hasue and Isabel CN Sacco
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2012 13:36
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  46. Vascular damage in polytrauma patients is associated with high mortality and morbidity. Therefore, specific clinical implications of vascular damage with fractures in major trauma patients are reassessed.

    Authors: F. Gilbert, C. Schneemann, C. J. Scholz, R. Kickuth, R. H. Meffert, R. Wildenauer, U. Lorenz, R. Kellersmann and A. Busch
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2018 19:404
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  47. Osteoarthritis (OA) is a prevalent chronic disease and a leading cause of disability in adults. For people with knee and hip OA, symptoms (e.g., pain and fatigue) can interfere with mobility and physical activ...

    Authors: Susan L Murphy, Angela K Lyden, Maria Clary, Michael E Geisser, Raymond L Yung, Daniel J Clauw and David A Williams
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2011 12:177
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  48. Reconstruction for large bone defect of distal tibia after wide resection of tumor is difficult, and the best option remains controversial. This study presents a novel “double-strut” fibula ankle arthrodesis f...

    Authors: Zhiqing Zhao, Taiqiang Yan, Xiaodong Tang, Wei Guo, Rongli Yang and Shun Tang
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 20:367
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. The incidence of periprosthetic fractures after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is rising due to the increasing number of TKAs performed annually and the growing elderly population. A periprosthetic fracture of ...

    Authors: Koji Nozaka, Naohisa Miyakoshi, Takeshi Sato and Yoichi Shimada
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2020 21:145
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  50. Musculoskeletal complaints are frequent and have large consequences for public health. Information about the prognosis after presentation in general practice is far from complete. Knowledge about determinants ...

    Authors: Johanna M van der Waal, Sandra DM Bot, Caroline B Terwee, Daniëlle AWM van der Windt, Lex M Bouter and Joost Dekker
    Citation: BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2003 4:3
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:
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