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A new movement: surgical Art
C. Raux | MO n°126
August 2003 |  We all know nautical art – those tiny little ships in bottles, made by sailors whiling away the long winter months; and peasant art – those carved wooden tools that are the pride of folk museums everywhere. Are we now seeing the advent of a new art form – surgical art? PMMA, an acrylic cement, was introduced into dentistry in 1933; today, 150,000 kits are used annually in France. This development has gone hand in hand with the evolution of a new art form that has been confined to operating theatres: polymethylmethacrylate sculpture – with or without added antibiotics. Antibiotics – at least the aminoglycosides gentamicin or tobramycin – have something to do with fungi. So, if we have fungi in the sculptors’ raw material, would that be like the eggs used by early Italian fresco painters for mixing ...
C. Raux |
Lumbar fusion vs. oenotherapy in the management of chronic low-back pain: A prospective randomized study
F. Jacquot, P. Garçon, G. Saillant | MO n°100
January 2001 |  Disabling chronic low-back pain is extremely prevalent in Western countries, entailing huge social costs; however, there are as yet no agreed management guidelines for this condition. A wide variety of treatments have been investigated in a large number of studies, with contradictory results. The problem is compounded by the fact that, owing to methodological biases, most of the studies performed are difficult to interpret. Among the deficiencies encountered are extremely poor evaluation criteria, an overemphasis on the technical aspects of the treatments concerned, the absence of an assessor of sufficient scientific integrity, non-consecutive recruitment into the studies, inhomogeneous patient populations, failure to restrict each study to one disease entity, and consistent lack of a control group.Nonsurgical treatments of whatever kind (drug ...
F. Jacquot, P. Garçon, G. Saillant |
Guillaume DUPUYTREN
| MO n°100
January 2001 | When, during the three days of the Glorious Insurrection in 1830, Parisians fought and died for their civil liberties, all eyes were on the Hôtel-Dieu hospital, which took in the casualties. The famous centre coped magnificently. Today, Traîtrise Orthopédique publishes an interview with one of the hospital's most famous surgeons, Baron Guillaume Dupuytren, Surgeon-in-Chief at the Hôtel-Dieu, Associate Clinical Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Member of the Institut Français and of the Academy of Medicine. M.O. Baron, what prompted you to become a surgeonM.O. Baron, what prompted you to become a surgeon?G.D. I came to Paris in 1789, to study at the Collège de la Marche, in the Rue de la Montagne Sainte-Geneviève. Four years later, the college was closed down in the Revolution, just as I had nearly completed my Arts course. I was ...
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Hips that stayed on the drawingboard (think how lucky you were!)
F. Laude, L. Doursounian | MO n°100
January 2001 |  Hip replacement has developed explosively over the past 30 years. Europe has been in the forefront of development, and has been very largely responsible for the success of the technique. The large number of problems involved in joint replacement has prompted surgeons to come up with a wealth of ideas, and led to the creation of many and varied designs. This could have resulted in there being as many hip implant patterns as there were surgeons - had it not been for those who claimed that there should be as many hip implant patterns as there are hips.Unfortunately, cold and sober economic constraints put an end to this development, and many models were nipped in the bud. For this anniversary number, we thought that some of the many designs that did not make it to the marketplace should be assembled in these pages. Perhaps we should think of ...
F. Laude, L. Doursounian |
Orthopaedic sculpture Jean Khatchadourian
J. Khatchadourian | MO n°75
June 1998 | << Football >> (May 1976) H = 36,50cm The first of his sculptures, created on the occasion of a football match organised by Climo - the first company which allowed him to discover and better know the world of surgical instruments and implants. It is composed of : Body : > 4 Charnley Thackray hip stems > 1 Ring hip stem Base : > 3 Thompson endoprostheses Ball : > 2 Duparc Alnot cups...
J. Khatchadourian |
The Rambling Journey of a Young Intern At Sicot 96
F. CHATAIN | MO n°64
May 1997 | "The Great Escape"This my first major congress, and furthermore an international one. I did go to the SOFCOT last year, but that lasted only one day. This time it's the real McKoy: five whole days...ln Amsterdam...ln English... And l'm going by myself, like the big boy that I am. The Boss suggested the trip, but it's give and take: I have to return with a scoop, an article, a paper on a subject of my choosing, to be presented to the whole department. I can live with that.In a nutshell, this is exciting, and I proudly show off to anyone who is willing to listen the fact that I am off to a congress, abroad, in Amsterdam of all places... Mother is close to tears, father plants a manly kiss on my forehead and l'm off: catch the plane, nice air hostesses, light meal, a few mags (only light reading by request). I'm lighthearted and a trifle apprehensive ...
F. CHATAIN |
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