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By Erik R. Dorf, MD We have all been there. Comminuted distal humerus fractures are some of the most challenging fractures we tackle. This day was no different, and I had my hands full. A 27-year-old, healthy athletic female, crashed snowboarding on Vail Mountain. Comminuted intraarticular distal humerus fracture in her dominant right elbow. Her x-ray was […]
By Lyudmil Simeonov, MD, PhD The ability to configure a preliminary plan as a drawing gives the surgeon better orientation and security for the pending procedure. It is well known that the hand is a complex sensory and motor organ. The morphology of the hand consists of intricate heterogeneous structures that are unforgiving to injury. […]
By Sandra Buchman Collins, MD I love my job as a hand surgeon. I can think of no better way to spend my medical career. As anyone who has made the journey from student to practicing surgeon knows, however, there is a price we all pay. Long hours and nights in hospital during training are followed by […]
By Shawn Diamond, MD I discovered “true grit” in of all places a five-year-old from the Chihuahua desert. I started practice this year in Paso del Norte, a region comprising sister-cities of El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. When driving East on I-10 toward downtown El Paso, the Rio Grande reflects a border wall, […]
By Keizo Fukumoto, MD, PhD The patients have taught me a lot of things while I have been working as a hand surgeon. The surgical results differ in each case and sometimes turn out not to be fully satisfactory. Even when the surgery has been carried out without problems from the surgeons’ point of view, […]
By James R. McClurg, MD, FAAOS I knew early on during my orthopedic training that I was going to pursue fellowship training in hand surgery. One of my attendings was a member of the ASSH and would constantly talk with pride about his membership. It was clear to me that membership in the ASSH was […]
By Hiroyuki Hashizume, MD Minimally invasive orthopedic surgery (MIOS) is now a commonly used technique in upper limb surgery. In arthroscopic surgery, it is possible to perform intra-articular and extra-articular surgery in each area of the shoulder, elbow, wrist joints, and small joints of the hand including CM joints of the thumb and finger joints. […]
By Paul L. Sternenberg, MD In the summer of 2019, I visited high school friends in the Chicago area for our regular annual reunion. While at a baseball game, I noticed some shimmering in my visual field that I assumed was something in my right eye. I kept trying to wipe it out of my eye. By […]
By Orhan Kaymakcalan, MD Case 1: Patient is a 54-year-old male admitted with a diagnosis of acute renal failure, rhabdomyolysis, severe upper G.I. bleeding, and dry gangrene on both upper and lower extremities. By the time he was admitted, he had been rejected by one hospital and transferred by another. The patient stated he was […]
By Chetan Patel, FC Plast Surg SA Of the tougher conversations I have had with patients, it would seem that the difficulty was largely due more to self-doubt than to any inherent patient factor. One such case comes to mind: a 30-something right hand dominant hardware store manager came off in a motorbike accident sustaining […]