The following abstracts of special papers selected from the SICOT journal, International Orthopaedics, are published in the SICOT e-Newsletter (all links below open in a new window):
 

• February 2016
  Clinical significance of corrosion of cemented femoral stems in metal-on-metal hips: a retrieval study
  Harry S. Hothi, Reshid Berber, Andreas C. Panagiotopoulos, Robert K. Whittaker, Camilla Rhead, John A. Skinner and Alister J. Hart
   

• February 2015
  Removal of the infrapatella fat pad during total knee arthroplasty: does it affect patient outcomes?
  Robert Moverley, Derfel Williams, Nikolaos Bardakos & Richard Field
   

• December 2014
  Human evolution and tears of the rotator cuff
  Johnathan D. Craik, Ravi Mallina, Vijayraj Ramasamy & Nick J. Little
   

• October 2014
  Custom rotating hinge total knee arthroplasty in patients with poliomyelitis affected limbs
  Jeeshan Rahman, Sammy A. Hanna, Babar Kayani, Jonathan Miles, Robin C. Pollock, John A. Skinner, Timothy W. Briggs & Richard W. Carrington
   

• August 2014
  Neglected ununited tibial eminence fractures in the skeletally immature: arthroscopic management
  Ashraf Abdelkafy & Hatem Galal Said
   

• June 2014
  Biologic augmentation of rotator cuff repair with mesenchymal stem cells during arthroscopy improves healing and prevents further tears: a case-controlled study  
  Philippe Hernigou, Flouzat Lachaniette, Charles Henri, Jerome Delambre, Sebastien Zilber, Pascal Duffiet, Nathalie Chevallier & Helene Roua
     

• April 2014
  Regulatory authorities and orthopaedic clinical trials on expanded mesenchymal stem cells
  Enrique Gómez-Barrena, Cristina Avendaño Solá & Carmen Painatescu Bunu
   

• March 2014
  Progress in musculoskeletal oncology from 1922-2012
  Rainer I. Kotz
     

• February 2014
  Treatment of distal tibial shaft fractures by three different surgical methods: a randomized, prospective study
  Yongchuan Li, Xi Jiang, Qinghe Guo, Lei Zhu, Tianwen Ye & Aimin Chen
   

• January 2014
  The effect of a collar and surface finish on cemented femoral stems: a prospective randomised trial of four stem designs
  Jonathan Hutt, Alexandra Hazlerigg, Ansari Aneel, Geoffrey Epie, Husam Dabis, Roy Twyman & Andrew Cobb
    

• December 2013
  Platelet-rich plasma prevents blood loss and pain and enhances early functional outcome after total knee arthroplasty: a prospective randomised controlled study 
  Aditya K. Aggarwal, V.S. Shashikanth & Neelam Marwaha
   

• November 2013
  Antithrombotic prophylaxis in major orthopaedic surgery: an historical overview and update of current recommendations
  Plamen Kinov, Panayot P. Tanchev, Martin Ellis & Gershon Volpin
   

• October 2013
  Metal-on-metal hip prostheses: Correlation between debris in the synovial fluid and levels of cobalt and chromium ions in the bloodstream
  Dalila De Pasquale, Susanna Stea, Stefano Squarzoni, Barbara Bordini, Marilina Amabile, Simona Catalani, Pietro Apostoli & Aldo Toni
     

• August 2013
  Do we really need closed-suction drainage in total hip arthroplasty? A meta-analysis
  Xin-die Zhou, Jin Li, Yan Xiong, Li-feng Jiang, Wei-jun Li & Li-dong Wu
    

• July 2013
  Patterns of isotope uptake in sequential postoperative bone scan in undisplaced femoral-neck fractures
  Byung Ho Yoon, Young Woong Kim & Hyung Ku Yoon
     

• June 2013
  Inappropriate requests for magnetic resonance scans of the shoulder
  Richard Freeman, Sanjay Khanna & David Ricketts
     

• May 2013
  Indications for and results of arthroscopy in the arthritic knee: a European survey
  Hermann Otto Mayr, Matthias Rueschenschmidt, Romain Seil, David Dejour, Anke Bernstein, Norbert Suedkamp & Amelie Stoehr
   

• April 2013
  Tourniquet time affects postoperative complications after knee arthroplasty 
  Charlotta Olivecrona, Lasse J. Lapidus, Lina Benson & Richard Blomfeldt 
    

• March 2013
  High reliability of an algorithm for choice of implants in hip fracture patients 
  Henrik Palm, Eva Posner, Hans-Ulrik Ahler-Toftehøj, Peter Siesing, Silas Gylvin, Tobias Aasvang, Kim Holck & Kenneth Brian Holtz 
    

• February 2013
  Comparative study between mono-bundle bone-patellar tendon-bone, double-bundle hamstring and mono-bundle bone-patellartendon-bone combined with a modified Lemaire extra-articular procedure in Anterior Cruciate Ligament reconstruction 
  David Dejour, Wilson Vanconcelos, Nicolas Bonin & Paulo Renato Fernandes Saggin 
    

• January 2013
  The timing of ankle fracture surgery and the effect on infectious complications: a case series and systematic review of the literature 
  Tim Schepers, Mark R. De Vries, Esther M. M. Van Lieshout & Maarten Van der Elst
     

• December 2012
  Tuberculosis of the entheses 
  Sagar Narang 
    

• November 2012
  Surgical treatment of chronic groin pain in athletes 
  Bojan Dojčinović, Bozidar Šebečić, Mario Starešinić, Sasa Janković, Mladen Japjec & Vencel Čuljak
   

• October 2012
  Causes of a painful total knee arthroplasty. Are patients still receiving total knee arthroplasty for extrinsic pathologies? 
  Nawfal Al-Hadithy, Hamoun Rozati, Matthew Sewell, Alex Dodds, Peter Brooks & Minhal Chatoo
   

• August 2012
  Risk factors for post-traumatic osteoarthritis of the ankle: an eighteen year follow-up study 
  Anne Lübbeke, Davide Salvo, Richard Stern, Pierre Hoffmeyer, Nicolas Holzer & Mathieu Assal
   

• July 2012
  Revision rate of Birmingham Hip Resurfacing arthroplasty: comparison of published literature and arthroplasty register data 
  Reinhard Schuh, Daniel Neumann, Rauend Rauf, Jochen Hofstaetter, Nikolaus Boehler & Gerold Labek
      

• June 2012
  Hip joint development in children with type IIb developmental dysplasia 
  Marcin Sibiński, Emil Adamczyk, Zoe C. J. Higgs & Marek Synder 
    

• May 2012
  Medial Achilles tendon island flap - a novel technique to treat re-ruptures and neglected ruptures of the Achilles tendon 
  Lasse J. Lapidus & Bill Adams Ray & Per Hamberg 
    

• April 2012
  Arthroplasty options in femoral-neck fracture: answers from the national registries 
  Arun Kannan, Ramprasad Kancherla, Stephen McMahon, Gabrielle Hawdon, Aditya Soral & Rajesh Malhotra
      

• March 2012
  Risk factors for post-traumatic osteoarthritis of the ankle: an eighteen year follow-up study
  Anne Lübbeke, Davide Salvo, Richard Stern, Pierre Hoffmeyer, Nicolas Holzer & Mathieu Assal
      

• February 2012
  Causes of a painful total knee arthroplasty. Are patients still receiving total knee arthroplasty for extrinsic pathologies? 
  Nawfal Al-Hadithy, Hamoun Rozati, Matthew Sewell, Alex Dodds, Peter Brooks & Minhal Chatoo 
     

• January 2012
  Arthroplasty options in femoral-neck fracture: answers from the national registries
  Arun Kannan, Ramprasad Kancherla, Stephen McMahon, Gabrielle Hawdon, Aditya Soral & Rajesh Malhotra
     

• December 2011
  Effects of different weight-bearing regimes on press-fit cup stability: a randomised study with five years of follow-up using radiostereometry
  Olof Wolf, Per Mattsson, Jan Milbrink, Sune Larsson & Hans Mallmin 
      

• November 2011
  Geometrical values of the normal and arthritic hip and knee detected with the EOS imaging system
  Peter Than, Kinga Szuper, Szabolcs Somoskeöy, Vilmos Warta & Tamás Illés 
      

• October 2011
  Bone remodelling around the Metha short stem in total hip arthroplasty: a prospective dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry study 
  Matthias Lerch, Annelene von der Haar-Tran, Henning Windhagen, Bernd A. Behrens, Patrick Wefstaedt & Christina M. Stukenborg-Colsman 
    

• September 2011
  Knee function and prevalence of osteoarthritis after isolated anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction using bone-patellar tendon-bone graft: long-term follow-up 
  Johannes Struewer, Thomas Manfred Frangen, Bernd Ishaque, Christopher Bliemel, Turgay Efe, Steffen Ruchholtz & Ewgeni Ziring 
    

• August 2011
  The role of stem cells in fracture healing and nonunion
  Hangama Fayaz, Peter Giannoudis, Mark Vrahas, R. Smith, Christopher Moran, Pape Christoph, Christian Krettek & Jesse Jupiter 
    

• July 2011
  Use and efficacy of bone morphogenetic proteins in fracture healing 
  Suzanne N. Lissenberg-Thunnissen, David J. J. de Gorter, Cornelis F. M. Sier & Inger B. Schipper
   

• June 2011  
  First experiences with negative pressure wound therapy and instillation in the treatment of infected orthopaedic implants: a clinical observational study 
  Burkhard Lehner, Wim Fleischmann, Rolf Becker & Gerrolt N. Jukema 
        

• May 2011
  Screening and treatment in developmental dysplasia of the hip - where do we go from here?
  Mathew D. Sewell & Deborah M. Eastwood
   

• April 2011
  Prospective randomised study comparing screw versus helical blade in the treatment of low-energy trochanteric fractures 
  Richard Stern, Anne Lübbeke, Domizio Suva, Hermes Miozzari & Pierre Hoffmeyer 
     

• March 2011
  Long-term results of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: a comparison with non-operative treatment with a follow-up of 17–20 years 
  Radovan Mihelic, Hari Jurdana, Zdravko Jotanovic, Tomislav Madjarevic & Anton Tudor
    

• February 2011
  Toxicity of antiseptics against chondrocytes: What is best for the cartilage in septic joint surgery? 
  Eric Röehner, Paula Kolar, Joern B. Seeger, Joerg Arnholdt, Kathi Thiele, Carsten Perka & Georg Matziolis
    

• January 2011
  Reconstructive versus non-reconstructive treatment of Anterior Cruciate Ligament insufficiency. A retrospective matched-pair long-term follow-up
  Nikolaus A. Streich, David Zimmermann, Gerrit Bode & Holger Schmitt
      

• December 2010
  The association between the sagittal femoral stem alignment and the resulting femoral head centre in total hip arthroplasty
  Michael Müller, Dirk Crucius, Carsten Perka & Stephan Tohtz 
    

• November 2010
  Reindeer bone extract can heal the critical-size rat femur defect 
  Hanna Tölli, Sauli Kujala, Timo Jämsä & Pekka Jalovaara 
    

• October 2010
  Hip fracture: effectiveness of early surgery to prevent 30-day mortality 
  Elisa Carretta, Valerio Bochicchio, Paola Rucci, Giuliana Fabbri, Massimo Laus & Maria Pia Fantini 
   

• September 2010
  Less invasive and less technically demanding decompressive procedure for lumbar spinal stenosis - appropriate for general orthopaedic surgeons? 
  Masashi Takaso, Toshiyuki Nakazawa, Takayuki Imura, Kensuke Fukushima, Masaki Ueno, Wataru Saito, Ryousuke Shintani, Hiroyuki Sakagami, Kazuhisa Takahashi, Masashi Yamazaki, Seiji Ohtori & Toshiaki Kotani
     

• August 2010
  Hip fracture: effectiveness of early surgery to prevent 30-day mortality 
  Elisa Carretta, Valerio Bochicchio, Paola Rucci, Giuliana Fabbri, Massimo Laus & Maria Pia Fantini
      

• July 2010
  Operative treatment of distal radial fractures with locking plate system - a prospective study
  Kenny Kwan, Tak Wing Lau & Frankie Leung
     

• June 2010
  External jig-aided intramedullary interlocking nailing of diaphyseal fractures: experience from a tropical developing centre 
  Ikpeme Ikpeme, Ngim Ngim, Anthony Udosen, Obiora Onuba, Okokon Enembe & Segun Bello 
       

• May 2010
  Viability of loose body fragments in osteochondritis dissecans of the knee. A series of cases
  Cecilia Pascual-Garrido, Ignacio Tanoira, Domingo L. Muscolo, Miguel A. Ayerza & Arturo Makino 
     

• April 2010
  Direction of hip arthroplasty dislocation in patients with femoral neck fractures 
  Anders Enocson, Gunilla Lapidus, Hans Törnkvist, Jan Tidermark & Lasse J. Lapidus 
       

• March 2010
  Potency of double-layered Poly L-lactic acid scaffold in tissue engineering of tendon tissue 
  Atsuyuki Inui, Takeshi Kokubu, Takeshi Makino, Issei Nagura, Narikazu Toyokawa, Ryosuke Sakata, Masaru Kotera, Takashi Nishino, Hiroyuki Fujioka & Masahiro Kurosaka 
   

• February 2010
  Arthroscopic-assisted Locking Compression Plate clavicular hook plate fixation for unstable fractures of the lateral end of the clavicle: a prospective study 
  Kwang Won Lee, Sang Ki Lee, Kap Jung Kim, Yong In Kim, Won Cho Kwon & Won Sik Choy
       

• January 2010
  Functional outcome of PFC Sigma fixed and rotating-platform total knee arthroplasty. A prospective randomised controlled trial 
  Birgit Hanusch, Lou Thai, Gary Warriner, Anthony Hui & Paul Gregg
      

• December 2009
  Activities of daily living after total hip arthroplasty. Is a 32-mm femoral head superior to a 26-mm head for improving daily activities? 
  Isao Matsushita, Yuji Morita, Yoshiaki Ito, Ryuichi Gejo & Tomoatsu Kimura