Plastic Surgery

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Plastic surgery is the craft of moving skin and soft tissues to repair damage or to improve appearance and function. The skin provides a crucial function preventing excess fluid from…

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Orthopaedics in the Elderly

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Introduction The population of the developed world is ageing rapidly. The problems of the elderly have come to dominate orthopaedic and trauma services. There are a number of special problems:…

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Sports Medicine

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Definition Sports medicine is at one end of the spectrum of musculoskeletal disorders in that it relates to individuals who have very high expectations of their bodies, and who also…

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Neurological Disorders and Orthotics

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Neurological disorders There are multitudes of neurological disorders that may present in an orthopaedic clinic. These can vary from polio, which has now almost disappeared from the developed world (but…

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The Medical Management of Inflammatory Disease

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Introduction Although many of the treatments for inflammatory disease such as RA have been around for several decades, knowledge about the pathogenesis of disease has highlighted several new therapeutic options….

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Rehabilitation

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Introduction The majority of rheumatological diseases are long-term chronic conditions, occasionally associated with considerable disability. Even in a stable or slowly progressive disease such as RA, discrete events such as…

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Inflammatory Muscle Diseases

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Introduction The inflammatory muscle diseases polymyositis and dermatomyositis are characterised by an inflammation of striated muscle. As with other conditions in the spectrum of connective tissue disease, they can occur…

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Rheumatological History and Examination

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21 Rheumatological history and examination History The musculoskeletal history has the same basic framework as any medical or surgical history with details of the presenting complaint, history of presenting complaint,…

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Vasculitis 2: Medium and Small Vessel Vasculitis

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The commonest vasculitides are giant cell arteritis and Kawasaki disease. Despite their rarity, the medium and small vessel vasculitides are important diagnoses to be familiar with: as multi-system diseases they…

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