Entries Tagged as 'SLAC'

June 8, 2007

Change Agents: Knowledge Prosititution*

Prostitution (prŏs‘tĭ-tū‘shən) n.

The act or practice of engaging in questionable work for hire.
The act or an instance of offering or devoting one’s talent to an unworthy use or cause.

I couldn’t help the title - with all the Paris Hilton stuff in the news - you just have to wonder what people will really [...]

April 18, 2007

Tales of a SLACer

Scapholunate Advanced Collapse (SLAC)
1. Refers to a specific pattern of osteoarthritis and subluxation which results from untreated chronic scapholunate dissociation or from chronic scaphoid non-union;2. Degenerative changes occur most often in areas of abnormal loading; typically involves the radial-scaphoid joint initially, followed by degeneration in the unstable lunatocapitate joint, as capitate subluxates dorsally on lunate.
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