HSS Journal - Volume 9, Number 1

Volume 9 | Number 1 | February 2013

• Letter from the Editor
  Charles N. Cornell, MD
   
• Predictors of Success of Corticosteroid Injection for the Management of Rotator Cuff Disease
  Fernando Contreras MD, Haydée C. Brown MD, Robert G. Marx MD, FCRSC
   
• Autograft and Allograft Unite Similarly in Lateral Column Lengthening for Adult Acquired Flatfoot Deformity
  J. Turner Vosseller MD, Scott J. Ellis MD, Martin J. O’Malley MD, Andrew J. Elliott MD, David S. Levine MD, Jonathan T. Deland MD, Matthew M. Roberts MD
   
• Bilateral Disruption of Soft Tissue Extensor Mechanism of Knee: Functional Outcome and Comparison to Unilateral Injuries
  Alexa Monroy BS, Adriana Urruela BS, Kenneth A. Egol MD, Nirmal C. Tejwani MD
   
• Plasma 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels in Operative Patella Fractures
  Keith R. Reinhardt MD, Lionel E. Lazaro MD, Ben-Paul Umunna BA, Michael B. Cross MD, David L. Helfet MD, Joseph M. Lane MD, Dean G. Lorich MD
   
• A Cohort Study Predicts Better Functional Outcomes and Equivalent Patient Satisfaction Following UKR Compared with TKR
  Douglas J. Matthews MRCS, BSc, Fahad Siddique Hossain MRCS, Shelain Patel MRCS, Fahad S. Haddad BSc, MCh(Orth), FRCS(Orth)
   
• Extreme Lateral Interbody Fusion (XLIF) in the Thoracic and Thoracolumbar Spine: Technical Report and Early Outcomes
  Dennis S. Meredith MD, Christopher K. Kepler MD, MBA, Russel C. Huang MD, Vishal V. Hegde
   
• Thrombophilic Abnormalities in Patients With or Without Pulmonary Embolism Following Elective Spinal Surgery
  Suhel Kotwal MD, Satoshi Kawaguchi MD, Alexander Hughes MD, Frank Cammisa Jr. MD, Kai Zhang MD, Eduardo Salvati MD, Federico Girardi MD
   
• Lumbar Spine Intervertebral Disc Gene Delivery: A Pilot Study in Lewis Rats
  Sheela R. Damle BS, Bernard A. Rawlins MD, Oheneba Boachie-Adjei MD, Ronald G. Crystal MD, Chisa Hidaka MD, Matthew E. Cunningham MD, PhD
   
• The Relationship Among Health Literacy, Health Knowledge, and Adherence to Treatment in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
  Patricia Quinlan DNSc, MPA, Kwanza O. Price MPH, Steven K. Magid MD, Stephen Lyman PhD, Lisa A. Mandl MD, MPH, Patricia W. Stone PhD, MPH
   
• Simultaneous Versus Staged Bilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty
  Nasir Hussain BSc, Teresa Chien BSc, Farrah Hussain BSc, Ammar Bookwala, Nicole Simunovic MSc, Vijay Shetty MS (Orth), Mohit Bhandari MD, PhD, FRCS(C)
   
• Surgical Dislocation of the Hip: Evolving Indications
  James R. Ross MD, Perry L. Schoenecker MD, John C. Clohisy MD
   
• Hip Arthroscopy: The Use of Computer Assistance
  Danyal H. Nawabi MD, FRCS (Orth), Denis Nam MD, Caroline Park BA, Anil S. Ranawat MD
   
• Development of Polymeric Nanocarrier System for Early Detection and Targeted Therapeutic Treatment of Peri-Implant Osteolysis
  P. Edward Purdue PhD, Adam S. Levin MD, Ke Ren, Thomas P. Sculco MD, Dong Wang PhD, Steven R. Goldring MD
   
• Traumatic Stem Fractures in Short Stem THA-A Rare Case Series
  Carl Haasper MD, PhD, MSc, Daniel O. Kendoff MD, PhD, Matthias Gebauer MD, PhD, MBA, Akos Zahar MD, Thomas Kreibich MD, Eduardo M. Suero MD, Thorsten Gehrke MD
   
• Successful Fusion of the Proximal Tibiofibular Joint with Osteogenic Protein-1 (OP-1) Augmentation
  Demetris Delos M.D., Jason Schneidkraut M.D., Scott Rodeo M.D.
   
• Successful Treatment of a Recalcitrant Pleural Effusion with Rib Fracture Fixation
  Benjamin C. Taylor MD, Bruce G. French MD
   
• MRI Diagnosis of Recurrent Pigmented Villonodular Synovitis Following Total Joint Arthroplasty
  Talia Friedman MD, Timothy Chen MD, Anthony Chang MD