Forty-three patients with chronic spinal cord injury for over 6 months were transplanted with bryonic olfactory ensheathing cells, 2-4 × 106, into multiple sites in the injured area under the sur-gical microscope. The sympathetic skin response in patients was measured with an electromyo-graphy/evoked potential instrument 1 day before transplantation and 3-8 weeks after trans-tion. Spinal nerve function of patients was assessed using the American Spinal Injury Association impairment scale. The sympathetic skin response was elicited in 32 cases before olfactory en-sheathing celltransplantation, while it was observed in 34 cases after transplantation. tantly, sympathetic skin response latency decreased significantly and amplitude increased cantly after transplantation. Transplantation of olfactory ensheathing cells also improved American Spinal Injury Association scores for movement, pain and light touch. Our findings indicate that factory ensheathing celltransplantation improves motor, sensory and autonomic nerve functions in patients with chronic spinal cord injury.

Bilateral hip dislocation rarely occurs.In this paper, a case of bilateral hip dislocation associated with bilateral sciatic nerve palsy resulted from a road traffic acci-dent is reported.Both hips were emergently reduced under general anaesthesia.Acetabular reconstruction was done bilaterally due to the unstable hips.The patient subsequently developed heterotopic ossification and avascular necrosis on the left hip and underwent total hip arthroplasty.The sciatic nerve on the right side achieved complete recovery but that on the left side only partly recovered and was aug-mented by tendon transfer.Such injuries are serious and one should be aware of the complications because they can resurface and so patients should be followed up for a long time.To the best of our knowledge, this kind of injury has not been reported in the English .language literature.