Session III - Spine & Rehabilitation Thursday, October 8, 1998

Moderator: Mitchel B. Harris, MD

4:10 p.m. Fractures of the Odontoid - Operative vs Nonoperative Treatment

Ernst J. Müller, MD; Mark Wick; Otto Russe; Michael P Hahn; Gert Muhr, Trauma Center Bergmannsheil, Bochum, Germany

4:16 p.m. Emergent Spinal Cord Decompression and Stabilization

Rush Fisher, MD; Daxes Banit, MD; Greg Grau, BA; University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

4:28 p.m. The Effects of Periosteal Elevation on Osteotomy Healing in a Rabbit Tibial Model

Paul Watson, MD; Douglas C. Fredericks, BS; James V. Nepola, MD, Bone Healing Research Laboratory, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA

4:34 p.m. The Use of the "No Angulation View" for Single Oblique Cut Corrective Osteotomies of Complex Tibial Malunions

J. Spence Reid, MD; Brian Nielsen, MD; Gregory Gilot, MD; Paul Juliano, MD; Erin Moran, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, PA

4:40 p.m. Twenty-eight Year Follow-up of Below-knee Amputees Injured during the Vietnam War

Paul J. Dougherty, MAJ, MC, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, TX, USA