• Differentiating between Traumatic Pathology and Congenital Variant

    July 2014 Clinics in Orthopedic Surgery Authors: Orestis Karargyris Kalliopi Lampropoulou-Adamidou Lambros Giuseppe Morassi Ioannis P. Stathopoulos Sofia N. Chatziioannou Spyridon G Pneumaticos Differentiating between Traumatic Pathology and Congenital Variant: A Case Report of Butterfly Vertebra Orestis Karargyris, MD, Kalliopi Lampropoulou-Adamidou, MD, Lampros-Guiseppe Morassi, MD, Ioannis P. Stathopoulos, MD, Sofia N. Chatziioannou, MD*, Spyros G.Read more
  • Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of Spinal Osteoid osteoma under CT guidance

    April 2014 The British journal of radiology 87(1038):20140003 DOI:10.1259/bjr.20140003 Authors: Lambros Giuseppe Morassi Konstantinos Kokkinis Dimitrios Stergios Evangelopoulos Orestis Karargyris Ioanna Vlachou Katerina Kalokairinou Spyros G Pneumaticos Objective: Osteoid osteoma (OO) accounts for approximately 10-12% of all benign bone tumours and 3% of all bone tumours. Spinal involvement appears in 10-25% of all cases. TheRead more
  • The Unusual Chance Fracture: Case Report & Literature Review

    August 2013 The Open Orthopaedics Journal 7(1):301-3 DOI:10.2174/1874325001307010301 Authors: Orestis Karargyris Lambros Giuseppe Morassi Christos Zafeiris Dimitrios Stergios Evangelopoulos Sg Pneumaticos The Chance fracture represents a spinal lesion caused by a flexion-distraction injury pattern. We describe a rare case of a male driver admitted at the Emergencies of our Institution, level A Trauma center. TheRead more
  • Sonication: A Valuable Technique for Diagnosis and Treatment of Periprosthetic Joint Infections

    January 2013 The Scientific World Journal 2013(392):375140 DOI:10.1155/2013/375140 Project: Periprosthetic Joint Infection Authors: Dimitrios Stergios Evangelopoulos I P Stathopoulos Lambros Giuseppe Morassi S Koufos A Albarni Panagiotis K Karampinas Antonios Stylianakis Sandro Kohl S Pneumaticos John Vlamis Background: Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is the most severe complication, following joint arthroplasty. Identification of the causal microbialRead more
  • Bioabsorbable Pins for Treatment of Osteochondral Fractures of the Knee after Acute Patella Dislocation in Children and Young Adolescents

    June 2012 Advances in Orthopedics 2012(4):249687 DOI:10.1155/2012/249687 Authors: A Gkiokas Lambros Giuseppe Morassi Sandro Kohl C Zampakides Panos Megremis Dimitrios Stergios Evangelopoulos A retrospective study was performed on the use of bioabsorbable pins in the fixation of osteochondral fractures (OCFs) after traumatic patellar dislocation in children. Eighteen children (13 females, 5 males) aged 11 toRead more
  • Distraction over Nail Using Circular External Fixation for Septic Pseudarthrosis of the Tibia

    January 2012 Journal of Long-Term Effects of Medical Implants 22(2):137-43 DOI:10.1615/JLongTermEffMedImplants.v22.i2.40 Authors: Orestis Karargyris Pavlos Romoudis Lambros Giuseppe Morassi Christos Zafeiris Andreas F Mavrogenis Vasileios Polyzois Spyridon G Pneumaticos We present a report of nine patients (eight women and one man; mean age 37 years) from 2010 to 2012 with septic pseudarthrosis of the tibiaRead more

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