All the while shadows were lengthening over bike racing, and the new champion.
With the shadow of the dreaded Golden Arches lengthening over French cuisine, the usually staid Le Monde urged its readers, as a "cultural imperative," to resist the lure of le hamburger.
The last economic blow to shape politics (Britain's forced exit from the exchange-rate mechanism in 1992) was of European origin; the debate on joining the single currency hung over Labour's early years in power.The shadow cast by Brussels is lengthening over Gordon Brown's premiership.
In response to this problem, the technique of lengthening over intramedullary nails has emerged.
The potential of lengthening over an antibiotic-coated nail may provide a solution to the problem of deep IMI.
Open image in new window Fig. 1 Serial X-ray of a case of lengthening over nail: a before lengthening.
The small sample size may have been responsible for the inability to show a significant benefit consistently to lengthening over a flexible intramedullary nail across the aetiologies.
The case-matched groups involved 49 tibiae which underwent lengthening in a hybrid Ilizarov fixator compared to 49 tibiae which underwent lengthening over an intramedullary unreamed tibial nail.
They concluded that lengthening over an intramedullary nail decreases the duration of external fixation, protects against refracture and allows earlier rehabilitation [31].
Similarly, interlocked intramedullary nail (IMN) can be used in bone lengthening (lengthening over nail technique, LON) as well as for fixation after deformity correction.
corrected F 10 R&L Ulna (a) Excision (b) Bilateral ulnar club hand Ulnar lengthening over Steinman pins (Unilateral fixator) 210 (a) 3 (b) 3.5 60 Def.
