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Background: The management of acetabular fractures, which are severe injuries and often complex, is difficult and costly especially for poor and developing African countries., Aim: To analyze and evaluate the functional and the radiological outcome of patients with acetabular fracture treated with open reduction and internal fixation., Materials and Methods: It is a retrospective study on 24 patients treated with ORIF and followed up in the Trauma Orthopedic Surgery Department of the Military Hospital of Moulay Ismail of Meknès (MHMIM) between January 2014 and December 2019. The average follow-up duration was 35 months (range: 9-81 months). The functional and radiographic outcomes and complication were considered as the main facts in this study., Results: Twenty-four patients (male: 18, female: 6) with average age 38 years (range: 16 to 65 years) were operated for acetabular fracture. With Matta criteria use for assessing the radiological outcomes, the anatomical and good reduction was achieved in 79.1% of the patients. The functional results based on the modified Merle d'Aubigne and Postel criteria were judged excellent in 70.83%. Postoperative complications of acetabular fracture such as heterotopic ossification were found in 16%, post-traumatic arthritis in 20%, and avascular necrosis in 12.5% of patients., Conclusion: As there is a strong correlation between anatomic reduction and clinical outcome, the ORIF constitutes an effective method for treatment of displaced acetabular fracture in young aged patients who are considered as the most vulnerable categories in our continent., (© 2021. SICOT aisbl.)

We here report 54 cases of humerus diaphyseal fractures treated via Hackethal's bundle nailing. We observed 3 cases of radial nerve palsy. Therapeutic abstention associated with monitoring was the applied attitude toward these patients on presentation to the Emergency Department. It resulted in recovery. Hackethal's bundle nailing technique is relatively easy but it requires rigorous surgical procedure performed by an experienced surgeon. A rate of 7.84% of pseudarthrosis is reported. Hackethal's bundle nailing is a very safe, improved orthopedic treatment with modest cost.

Talalgie is one of the most common symptoms involving the foot. Intra-bone lipoma is one of the most rare bone tumors of the calcaneus. We report the case of a patient presenting with intermittent and spontaneous chronic heel pain. Clinical and radiological examinations confirmed the diagnosis of lipoma of the calcaneus. This study aimed to educate clinicians about the existence of this rare lesion., Competing Interests: Les auteurs ne déclarent aucun conflit d´intérêts.

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) mucoid cysts are rare. They are often asymptomatic and unrecognized. Their clinical expression is polymorphic and MRI allows for an early diagnosis confirmed by histology. Arthroscopic resection is the gold standard treatment. Our study reports a case of ACL mucoid cyst treated with arthroscopic resection., Competing Interests: Conflits d’intérêts Les auteurs ne déclarent aucun conflits d'intérêt.

Nervous lipofibromatous hamartoma is a rare tumor-like condition involving the peripheral nerves, whereby the epineurium and perineurium are enlarged and distorted by excess of fatty and fibrous tissues that infiltrate between and around nerve boundaries. The median nerve is much more likely to develop a hamartoma than other nerves with a predilection for the carpal tunnel. We present a case of carpal tunnel syndrome in an adult caused by fibrolipomatous hamartoma of the median nerve, successfully removed by excision of the fibrolipomatous tissue and decompression.