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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">846</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>RESULTS OF EARLY EXCISION OF POST TRAUMATIC HETEROTROPHIC OSSIFICATION OF ELBOW -FOLLOW UP REPORTS ON 17 PATIENTS&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>S.</surname><given-names>Ravichandran</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>R.</surname><given-names>Surendher Kumar</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Periyasamy</surname><given-names>Ramesh</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>R.</surname><given-names>Krishnagopal</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>13</day><month>06</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>36</fpage><lpage>42</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>We review our results of 17 patients, who had early excision 5 months (3-8 months) of post traumaticHeterotrophic ossification (HO) of elbow,followed by medical treatment with indomethacin to prevent recurrence, in our study. The average age group of our patients is 24 years (15-38). There were 12 males and 5 females. The patients were followed up for average of 58 months (38-90 months). The mean preoperative Mayo Elbow Performance Score (MEPS) was 63(40-80), and the mean MEPS core at final follow up is 90(75-100). According to MEPS, 13 patients had excellent result and 4 patients had good result. All the patients were asymptomatic at the time of final follow up. One patient with intra operative ulnar nerve injury recovered partially, and remained with some disability at final follow up. Patient with pre operative median nerve palsy recovered completely at 3 months post operatively.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Heterotrophic Ossification</kwd><kwd> MEPS</kwd><kwd> Early Excision</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
