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The aim of our study was to compare the effects of suprascapular nerve block in patients with frozen shoulder and diabetes mellitus unresponsive to intraarticular steroid injections. Ten patients without improvement of sign and symptoms after intraarticular injections were made a suprascapular nerve block. Pain levels and active range of movement of patients were recorded at initial attendance and after 1, 4, and 12 weeks. All patients' simple pain scores, total pain scores, and range of motion of their shoulders were improved significantly after suprascapular nerve block. In this study, the statistical analyses were performed by using the SPSS 8.0 program [SPSS Software, SPSS Inc., USA]. To compare pre- and post-injection results of simple pain score, total pain score, shoulder abduction and external rotation, Wilcoxon test was used. Patient's simple pain scores, total pain scores also abduction, external rotation and internal rotation angles were improved significantly after suprascapular nerve block. Effective results after suprascapular nerve blockage was obtained for the treatment of refractory frozen shoulder cases
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To report a case of bilateral secondary coxarthrosis in a patient with a history of pelvic irradiation for sarcoma botryoides. The patient had surgery and radiation therapy for sarcoma botryoides when she was 18 months old. Left and right cement-less total hip arthroplasties were performed at the age of 36 and 40 years, respectively. Harris hip scores improved from 28.4 to 93 on the left hip after 84 months of follow-up and from 29.5 to 91.3 on the right hip after 38 months of follow-up. Cementless total hip arthroplasty may be considered for irradiated hips, if radiation damage in bone has been stable for a long period of time