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and therapy of the functional scoliosis. Symptoms and therapy of scoliosis with
recognized etiology (congenital, paralytic, rachitic).
Degenerative diseases of the spine. Etiology of low back pain, clinical symptoms,
therapy. Low back of disc origin. Significance of the intervertebral discs under normal
and pathological conditions. Symptomatology of the ischias syndrome and its therapy.
Spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis. Lumbalization and Sacralization.
Deformities and diseases of the neck and the upper extremity.
Congenital torticollis, Klippel-Feil deformity. Cervical rib. Sprengel deformity.
Obstetricalisparalysis. Recurrent dislocation of the shoulder. Cervicobrachial syndrome.
Periarthritis of the shoulder. Dupuytren contracture. Kienböck disease. Tennis elbow.
Madelung deformity. Sudeck dystrophy of the upper extremity.
Osteoarthritis of the hip. Etiology, pathology, clinical and radiological symptoms.
Methods of conservative and operative Treatment.
Diseases of the child’s hip. Legg-Perthes-Calve disease. Slipped capital femoral
epiphysis. Acute and chronic arthritis of the hip.
Congenital dislocation of the hip. Anatomy and development of the hip joint. Concept
of dysplasia. Subluxation and luxation. Pathology. Early and late clinical and X-ray
signs. Early and late conservative therapy. Various methods of operative treatment.
Palliative operation.
Diseases of the knee. Recurrent dislocation of the patella.
Osteochondritis of the tibial tubercle (Osgood-Schlatter disease). Ostechondrosis
of the tibia. Varus, valgus and hyperextension deformity. Osteoarthritis.
Chondromalacia of the patella. Meniscus lesions.
Diseases of the foot. Congenital clubfoot. Tarsal synostosis. Hallux valgus. Aseptic
necrosis of the bones of the foot. Osteoarthritis of the joints of the foot. Flatfoot.
Neuromuscular diseases. Classification and treatment. Infantile cerebral palsy.
Disturbances of the development of the vertebral body and neural arch. Muscular
defects. Progressive muscular dystrophy and other diseases of the muscles.
Primary tumors of bones and their classification. Benign bone tumors. Osteoid
osteoma. Semimalignant and malignant tumors (giant cell tumor, chondroma,
osteosarcoma, chondrosarcoma, multiple myeloma, Ewing sarcoma). Main
pathologic features.. ‘
Bone disorders. Osteoporosis, osteomalacia, osteogenesis imperfecta, Paget
disease.
Developmental anomalies. Congenital anomalies of the extremities.
Consultation.
ORTHOPEDICS
SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY / FACULTY OF MEDICINE
Practices
Instruction of correct behaviour in the Hospital and during practicals. Introduction to
the Hospital. Therapeutic aims of Orthopedics. Methods of the clinical practicals.
Methodology of learning Orthopedics.
Diagnostic and therapeutic methods of Orthopedics. Anamnesis. Inspection,
palpation, examination of motions.
Basics of radiological examination of the musculoskeleta! system. Normal Roentgen
anatomy of the bones and joints. Form and function. Methods of examination of limb
shortening and alterations of the forms. Contracture. Limping.
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