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Introduction Hand surgery is usually performed under three main types of anesthesia techniques: local, regional, or general anesthesia. Each technique has advantages and disadvantages ( Table 1 ). These factors need to be outweighed by
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Introduction Infections of the hand are common entities that are frequently encountered by orthopaedic surgeons and primary care physicians in the emergency room. 1 In 1993, Brown and Young suggested that major metropolitan hospitals
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Haemophilic and von Willebrand patients present with 80–90% of their bleeding episodes happening in the musculo-skeletal system, especially in large synovial joints, being less frequent in small joints such as the hands. 6 It is somewhat striking how the
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life activities, and the peculiar torque stress and strain at the bone/implant interfaces. 20 Pyrocarbon was introduced in experimental studies in the 1970s and in clinical practice in orthopaedics, vertebral and hand surgery in the 1980s. After
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Introduction Dupuytren’s disease (DD) is a common hand disorder with mild to devastating consequences for function of the hand. A scar tissue-like process (fibrosis) forms nodules and strands in the palms, which may cause disabling finger
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a private hand surgery clinic offering public service in the Netherlands. The startup position allowed for a complete redesign of hand surgery care. Early on, we added value-based healthcare (VBHC) principles such as integrated care, healthcare
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and stroke. 17 To our knowledge, there has been no previous NQR for specialised hand surgery anywhere in the world. Hand surgery has been an independent speciality in Sweden since 1983, distinct from orthopaedic and plastic surgery. There are
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Introduction Wrist arthritis, either primary or secondary, is a debilitating condition that often leads to significant limitations in the use of the hand due to chronic wrist pain. When conservative treatment fails, surgical intervention is
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Background Injuries to the extremities and hand are common; the incidence of hand injuries is 7 to 37/1000 inhabitants/year in Europe 1 and around 50% of the injuries are fractures. Among the affected structures that are much less
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. Current systematic reviews of robotic-assisted knee surgery often amalgamate the outcomes of both image-based and image-free systems. 9 Despite the advantages of image-free hand-held robotic-assisted knee arthroplasty surgery, the authors are not
