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Paronychia

Definition

 

Paronychia is skin around nail plate

 

Eponychia is skin covering base of nail plate

 

Pathology

 

1.  Due to foreign material between nail plate and paronychium 

 

2.  By hang nail traumatising paronychium

 

Aetiology

 

Acute

- typically polymicrobial 

- aerobes and anaerobes

Olecranon fractures

Definition

 

Intra-articular proximal ulna fracture

 

Anatomy

 

Articulates with trochlea

- may have a central bare area

 

Triceps insertion

- via broad aponeurosis which blends with anconeus and CEO

 

Management

 

Non operative Management

 

Undisplaced fracture

- need to ensure triceps mechanism is intact

Background

DefinitionKnee OCD MRI Cartilage Intact

 

Osteochondritis Dissecans

- separation of avascular fragment of bone & cartilage

 

Epidemiology

 

M : F = 2:1

 

Mean age 18 years

- can present as young as 9

 

4:1000

 

Discoid Meniscus

DefinitionDiscoid Meniscus

 

Round or "D" shaped rather than crescenteric meniscus

- occupies > 70% of tibial surface

- 90% occur on lateral side

 

Epidemiology

 

Uncommon

- 1:100

- usually presents in children & adolescents

 

Offset

Definition

 

The perpendicular distance from the centre of the femoral head to the long axis of the femur

 

Harris 1992

- aim for supra-physiologic offset 

- avoid making offset less than original at all costs & makes longer if possible

 

Soft tissue balancing equals restoring femoral offset

 

Effect of short offset

 

1.  Abductor lurch / Trendelenburg gait

Protrusio

Definition

 

Migration of the femoral head past the medial wall of the acetabulum / ilioischial line 

 

Centre edge angle > 40o

 

Aetiology

 

Primary 

 

Otto's Disease

- bilateral in one third

- middle aged females

- pain & decreased ROM early 

- coxa vara & OA common

- ? causally related to osteomalacia

Charcot Marie Tooth

Hereditary Motor Sensory Neuropathies I-III

 

Epidemiology

 

1: 3000

 

Definition

 

Group of inherited peripheral sensory & motor neuropathies

- includes Charcot Marie Tooth Disease

 

Classification

 

Hypertrophic vs Neuronal HMSN 

 

I   Hypertrophic CMT

II  Neuronal CMT

III Infantile Hypertrophic Neuropathy - Dejerine-Sottas