A 90-year-old woman presented to the ED after sustaining a ground-level fall onto her right knee earlier in the day.Her medical history is significant for atrial fibrillation on apixaban ...

Previous descriptions in the literature of neonatal physeal femoral fracture suggest easy closed reduction with an excellent outcome. 5, 7 However, the attempt to treat this baby with simple ...

The researchers fixed closed femur fractures in 471 patients in two developing countries with the intramedullary (IM) nail. The nail was originally designed as a tibial nail, but has been used to ...

Breaking your femur can make daily tasks more difficult because it’s one of the main bones used to walk. We’ll explain what causes a broken femur, how it’s treated, and the potential ...

Winquist and colleagues [1] reported that 16.5% of 520 femoral shaft fractures were open. Of those, 88.4% were type I, according to the Gustilo-Anderson classification of open fractures [2, 3]: ...

Original Article Archive Femoral-Shaft Fractures Treated by Medullary Nailing Author: Edwin F. Cave, M.D. Author Info & Affiliations Published February 21, 1952 N Engl J Med 1952;246: 284 - 288 ...

Intertrochanteric hip fracture: An intertrochanteric hip fracture occurs farther away. It’s about 3 to 4 inches from the joint. It doesn’t stop blood flow to the femur.

Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Sunday evening that surgery to repair a fracture in his femur was “completely successful” and that he’s planning to return to the Senate for votes ...