Balance
upWe all know we are supposed to strive for it, this aphoristic State of Zen known as “balance” in our fissiparous, complex lives.As surgeons we are professional overachievers. Those of us in academia...
View ArticleBone graft substitutes in oncology, paediatrics, and hip arthroplasty
Author(s): J. M. WerierCategory: Focus On...
View ArticleWhoops! Sorry - your lump is not a lipoma
up1 user like this.Guidelines for the management of soft tissue sarcomas have been around for the best part of a decade now. Part of these guidelines are the red flag signs. Despite these guidelines...
View ArticleCancer Peer Review…..washing your laundry in public?
up After an amnesty and years delay following the introduction of further new measures to be assessed against, 2012 has seen all Sarcoma Units in England included in the National Cancer Peer Review...
View ArticleThe ‘stiff upper lip’ alive and well – but perhaps not the patient
up1 user like this. A recent large European and British Commonwealth study into public awareness of cancer symptoms and patient delay in seeking medical help has been published in the British Journal...
View ArticleMetastases in the proximal femur: gold standard management
up1 user like this. Improvements in oncological care are resulting in increased survival in cancer patients. A pathological fracture or impending fracture of the proximal femur therefore requires more...
View ArticleWide: what does it mean in sarcoma surgery?
upThe concept of a wide in cricket is reasonably straightforward but the concept of a wide margin in sarcoma surgery is rather more confusing and there is little uniformity in understanding of it...
View ArticlePrecision tumour resection and reconstruction using image-guided computer...
up37 users like this.KC Wong and SM KumtaClick here to read the article.
View ArticleThe 47th Annual Musculoskeletal Tumor Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic...
The 47th Annual Musculoskeletal Tumor Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Association (http://joa-tumor47.jp/en/index.html), which is the largest musculoskeletal oncologic meeting in Japan, will be...
View ArticleTrauma and neoplasia in children
up1 user like this.This week I saw a four-year-old girl in my paediatric orthopaedic clinic with a history of a trivial fall and subsequent thoracic back pain. She had previously attended an emergency...
View ArticleBack to the Future: A rotationplasty meritocracy may be coming of age
upThis past spring I was asked to give a talk at an Extreme Affordability Conference in Global Heath Care. The tenor of the meeting was finding ways to bring the latest technologies to lesser developed...
View ArticleExtreme Orthopaedic Symposium
Combining Orthopaedic Revision and Oncology ExpertiseSpecifically dedicated for surgeons specialising in these fields, encouraging them to come together and discuss the solution of extreme cases that...
View ArticleXLI Scientific Congress of the Polish Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
This Congress will invite an excellent international faculty of clinical specialists and researchers from many countries in the whole world with whom discussions will be held on selected scientific...
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