Surgical Blogs

There used to be a common consensus that ACL reconstruction of knee should not be done in old age, this idea has now largely been debunked with statistical evidence. this 68 year old man with a traumatic anterior cruciate ligament tear had intact lateral and medial meniscus and quite normal cartilage in the weight bearing […]

a 64 year old female, this one is special cause the other knee of the patient was operated by one of the best surgeons of kolkata, someone I consider as my teacher, and he set such a high standard of expectation from the patient it was hard to keep up with it . I was

Management of a neck of femur fracture in a 61 year old often fails for various reasons, like in this gentleman operated in some remote district and showing no sign of union or improvement after 8 months as witnessesd in the first xray. Under such circumstances, total hip replacement is our go to procedure. With

Some problems if ignored for fear or some other prejudice can cripple a person permanently, like this 65 yr old gentleman who can barely walk with this extremely deformed knee, correction of such a deformity can be challenging because of the inherent bone loss of nearly 15 mm that was discovered during surgery, however with

Intertrochanteric fractures of the femur that extend down into femoral shafts are sometimes tricky to handle, especially if the patient is 78 years old with multiple medical comorbidities. Such fractures should always be fixed however to give them a better chance in life, these long cephalomedullary nails (longfin) are best in such scenarios, these implants

Microscope assisted single level discectomy and fluoroscope-assisted root block. All thanks to Dr. Ariful Islam. This type of surgery Is recommended for young individuals with single-level posterior disc protrusion and related issues (preferably one-sided). The upside is faster recovery, preservation of original bone structures, and no need for instrumentation (eg. screws, etc.).The downside is the

A 19-year-old female with congenital both-side coxa vara (hip deformity) along with scoliosis of the spine and stunted growth, who developed neck of femur fracture of the left side and kept walking with it somehow with support due to sheer negligence of family until now.Such cases are extremely rare even by our usual standards, deformity can

A 22-year-old western dance and music teacher with an open fracture of the distal femur, and proximal tibia, a large chunk of patella lost on the street, and a patellar tendon torn and tattered with a grossly contaminated wound filled with debris and paint flakes from his bike. This is the sort of thing that

18 year old footballer with torn Acl, remnants of which is still attached to both sides of bone, in such cases, preserving the remaining stumps of Acl that carries nerves and proprioception (joint position sensation) and managing our reconstruction around that may well be an added boon for someone who is aspiring to be a

Most wrist fractures are treated with simple plaster cast, but in some cases like this one fracture involves the joint itself, in such a case unless absolute reduction of the joint line is achieved, the wrist and in turn hand may suffer severe loss of function.Think of it in this way, would a door hinge