Session II - Post Traumatic Reconstruction Friday, October 11, 2002

Moderators: Fred Behrens, MD & Mark R. Brinker, MD
3:00 PM Outcome after Arthrolysis of the Hip for Severe Heterotopic Ossification and Ankylosis

Michael Skutek, MD; Stefan Hanning; Ulrich Bosch, MD; Christian Krettek, MD, FRACS; Department of Trauma Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

3:06 PM *Arthroscopically Assisted Removal of Retrograde Femoral Nails: Description of Technique and Intraarticular Findings at Long-Term Follow-Up

Christopher T. Born, MD, FACS (a-Smith + Nephew, Synthes, USA, Howmedica; b-Zimmer; e-Stryker Howmedica Osteonics); Paul J. King, MD; Lisa Khoury, MD; William G. DeLong, Jr., MD, FACS (a-Smith + Nephew, Synthes, USA, Howmedica); University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (-AO North America Grant)

3:19 PM *The Treatment of Complex, Recalcitrant Long-Bone Nonunion with a Human Recombinant Bone Morphogenic Protein: Results of a Prospective Pilot Study

Michael D. McKee, MD, FRCS(C); Emil H. Schemitsch, MD, FRCS(C); Lisa Wild, BScN; James P. Waddell, MD, FRCS(C); St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (a-Stryker Biotech, Inc.)

3:25 PM The Impact of a Dedicated Skeletal Infectious Disease Specialist in the Treatment of Chronic and Post-Traumatic Skeletal Infections

Bruce H. Ziran, MD; N. Rao, MD; Joon Y. Lee, MD; Ronald A. Hall, MD; University of Pittsburgh, Department of Orthopaedics, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA