Progress on laminoplasty in spinal canal disease / 中国骨伤

Surgery is the preferred method for the treatment of spinal canal disease, surgical method involves laminectomy and laminoplasty. The ideal spinal surgery not only should fully expose the spinal canal, completely resect the occupied position and remove the spinal cord compression, but also should maintain the stability of spinal biomechanics. Because of the different realization of clinician to safeguard and rebuild the spinal stabilization during opertion of spinal canal disease, and choice of surgical method and how to maintain the stability of spine biomechanics has become a hot of research in this field. Many scholars have studied it in order to reduce the influence of laminectomy on the spinal stability. Laminoplasty can directly relieve the nerve roots compression caused by increasing or reconstruction of vertebral canal volume, and allow the migration of spinal cord to dorsum and depart from disc and vertebral body. Laminoplasty not only can fully expose and decompress during operative, but also may prevent the postoperative spinal instability. In addition to these condition of extensive disease, severe bone destruction or combined with osteoporosis, the laminoplasty is the most ideal method for single spinal canal disease in theoretically.

Role of Toll like receptors and inflammasome in aseptic loosening / 中国骨伤

Aseptic loosening, ascribes to particle induced osteolysis, is the most common reason for total joint arthroplasty failure. Wear particles, liberated from the surface of prostheses, mediate the expression of inflammatory cytokines in macrophages and increase the osteoclastogenesis. However, it remains unclear how macrophages can recognize wear particles and be induced by wear particles. Recently, a number of studies have demonstrated that Toll like receptors and inflammasome may play a critical role in osteolysis. However, the mechanism of activation of Toll like receptors and the relationship between TLR pathway and downstream signaling pathways still remain unclear. It will be beneficial to understand the pathogenesis of aseptic loosening by exploring these mechanisms. This article highlights the role of Toll like receptors and inflammasome in aseptic loosening, which is helpful to the development of therapies that prevent wear particle induced aseptic loosening.

Progress on diagnosis and treatment of the terrible triad of elbow joint / 中国骨伤

The terrible triad of elbow is a kind of complex elbow fracture dislocation, after reduction, it should get a concentric circles joint reduction and elbow stability, if radial and coronoid process fractures is less piece, the conservative treatment can be performed, but regularly follow up is mandatory. If surgical treatment was chosen, radial head fractures and the lateral collateral ligament complex must be repaired. Single lateral approach can be used and also can be combined with anteromedial approach in surgery. Some problems are still controversial in the treatment of coronoid process fracture with Morry type I and type II, such as fixation or not, whether additional external fixation and repair of the medial collateral ligament injury at the same time.