Impaction femoral head fractures are seldom diagnosed or treated, even though they can be present in between 39% and 57% of acetabular-fracture dislocations or hip dislocations. These fractures can ...

Canadians who have experienced an atypical femur fracture can join the registry by emailing osteoporosis (at)uhn.on.ca or by calling 416-340-4843.

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 ...

Figure 1. Typical short oblique fracture of left femur of a 4 years old boy. (A) The initial AP x-ray of left femur preoperative. (B) lateral x-ray of left femur preoperative. (C) An entry point was ...

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.

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]: ...

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 ...

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 ...