Laubscher, Maritz; Ferreira, Nando; Birkholtz, Franz Friedrich; Graham, Simon Matthew; Maqungo, Sithombo; Held, Michael(Springer, 2021-07)
The incidence of civilian gunshot injuries is on the rise worldwide.Unfortunately, there is a lack of high-level evidence guiding management. The treatment of orthopaedic injuries from gunshots is complex and requires ...
Masters, J.; Laubscher, Maritz; Graham, Simon Matthew; Marais, L.; Ferreira, Nando; Held, Michael; Viljoen, Jaco; Pillay, T.; Maqungo, Sithombo; Costa, M.(Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2021-07)
BACKGROUND : South Africa (SA) has one of the highest gun-related mortality rates in the world – 20 people per day. The available data, however, do not reflect the substantial number of patients suffering non-lethal firearm ...
PURPOSE : Injuries to the long bones of the upper limb resulting in bone defects are rare but potentially devastating. Literature on the management of these injuries is limited to case reports and small case series. The ...
Marais, Leonard C.; Ferreira, Nando; Aldous, Colleen; Le Roux, Theo L.B.(Springer, 2016-07-01)
Previous classification systems of chronic
osteomyelitis have failed to provide objective and pragmatic
guidelines for selection of the appropriate treatment
strategy. In this study, we assessed the short-term ...
