Bone Abstracts

A 20-year-old male presented following a fall down. He was diagnosed with a C5–C7 burst fracture and underwent a cervical fixation surgery. He was transferred to inpatient rehabilitation with C6 ASIA A tetraplegia.70 days after the operation, he began to have intermittent mild fever with a temperature of 37.4 oC. On postoperative day 72, left thigh was noted to be edematous. The circumferential difference between the lower extremities mea...

Limb length discrepancy has been observed in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (HCP). However, the difference of bone age and limb lengths have been a controversial issue. The purpose of this study was to analyze the bone age and the upper extremity segmental lengths between affected and naffected in HCP patients.Seventy-eight patients (39 boys and 39 girls; mean age 71.3±28.1 months). Fourty-five children were right and 33 were left hemiplegi...

Introduction: It has been reported that low bone mass is common in patients with pulmonary disorders such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. However, in healthy non-smoking women, the relationship between bone mass and pulmonary function has yet to be clarified. The object of this study was to determine whether pulmonary function is related to BMD in healthy non-smoking women based on menopausal status.Methods: This study was a cross-sectional stu...

The aim of this study was to investigate BMD of affected femur in patients with hemiplegic stroke.Medical records of 153 patients with stroke who admitted a rehabilitation clinic from January 2011 to March 2013 were retrospectively reviewed. We excluded the patients with non-hemiplegia, diseases which can affect the BMD such as diabetes mellitus, thyroid disease and anti-epileptic drugs. We also excluded the patients who did not check both femur BMD. Tot...