OBJECTIVE. Wrist buckle fractures are a frequent reason for emergency department visits.
Although textbooks recommend 2 to 4 weeks of immobilization in a short arm cast, …

Forty-four consecutive cases of subacute osteomyelitis admitted at our institution over a 12-year
period were retrospectively reviewed to assess the effectiveness of conservative versus …

Importance Lateral ankle injuries without radiographic evidence of a fracture are a common
pediatric injury. These children are often presumed to have a Salter-Harris type I fracture of …

Study Design. A double-blind study comparing the effects of desmopressin and a placebo (normal
saline) on blood loss during spinal instrumentation for neuromuscular scoliosis. …

Main outcome measures Surgeons’ accuracy in predicting the number of autologous blood
units required for a given procedure, compliance rate (children’s ability to donate the …

Despite its being one of the most commonly observed neurological disorders, neuropathological
studies of essential tremor (ET) are rare. There have been surprisingly few autopsy …

Background Although essential tremor (ET) is one of the most common neurologic disorders,
there have been few postmortem studies. We recently reported postmortem changes (…

Purkinje cell axonal swellings (‘‘torpedoes’’), described in several cerebellar disorders as
well as essential tremor (ET), have not been quantified in common neurodegenerative …

There are few data on rate of progression in essential tremor (ET). To quantify the rate of
tremor progression in a cross-sectional sample of 348 ET cases in an epidemiological study; …

All-terrain vehicle (ATV) riding has become very popular over the past decade. Several reports
have shown that ATV riding can cause injury. Poor machine design, rider inexperience, …