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 ...

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 ...

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.

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]: ...

Combined fractures of the per-trochanteric and femur shafts have an incidence of 28%. 1–3 Femoral neck fractures in combination with a shaft fracture occur with an incidence of 2.5–9%. 4 Supracondylar ...

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 ...

Results: Thirty-four children with acute completely displaced fractures of the femoral diaphysis were included: Group 1: 21 fractures; Group 2: 13 fractures. The patients included 15 girls (44.1%) and ...