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| A J ThurstonSummaryAffiliation: Wellington School of Medicine Country: New Zealand Publications
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Hamato-lunate impingement: an uncommon cause of ulnar-sided wrist painA J Thurston
Department of Surgery, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand
Arthroscopy 16:540-4. 2000..The pain could be reproduced by a modification of the Lichtman test. The diagnosis was confirmed by arthroscopy. All 4 patients responded favorably to resection of the head of the hamate...
Of blood, inflammation and gunshot wounds: the history of the control of sepsisA J Thurston
Department of Surgery, Wellington School of Medicine, New Zealand
Aust N Z J Surg 70:855-61. 2000..This was led by Domagk (1895-1964; sulfonamides) and was followed by Sir Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), Sir Howard Walter Florey (1898-1968) and Sir Ernest Boris Chain (1906-1979; penicillin) and Selman Waksman (1888-1973; actinomycin)...
Bone spurs: mechanism of production of different shapes based on observations in Dupuytren's diathesisAlan J Thurston
Department of Surgery, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand
ANZ J Surg 72:290-3. 2002....
'Ao' or eponyms: the classification of wrist fracturesAlan J Thurston
Department of Surgery and Anaesthesia, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington South, New Zealand
ANZ J Surg 75:347-55. 2005..In the presence of all of this confusion it is not surprising that a Swiss group, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen, has classified wrist fractures into groups of As, Bs and Cs...
Safety of silicone liquid in the postoperative management of Dupuytren's contractureA J Thurston
Department of Surgery, Wellington School of Medicine, New Zealand
Aust N Z J Surg 67:347-50. 1997..There are no reports in the literature of the safety of the use of silicones applied to open wounds...
Conservative and surgical treatment of tennis elbow: a study of outcomeA J Thurston
Department of Surgery, Wellington School of Medicine, New Zealand
Aust N Z J Surg 68:568-72. 1998....
The bacterial colonisation of silicone oil used in the management of wounds of the hands--a source of nosocomial infection?A J Thurston
The Department of Surgery, Wellington School of Medicine, PO Box 7343, Wellington South, New Zealand
Hand Surg 7:21-6. 2002..There was no evidence that wounds were being re-infected from the oil. The conclusion was that silicone oil remains a safe medium in which to exercise injured hands...
Paré and prosthetics: the early history of artificial limbsAlan J Thurston
Department of Orthopaedic and Hand Surgery, Wellington School of Medicine, Wellington, New Zealand
ANZ J Surg 77:1114-9. 2007..What began as a modified crutch with a wooden or leather cup and progressed through many metamorphoses has now developed into a highly sophisticated prosthetic limb made of space-age materials...
