Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Statistics show approximately 38,000 cases of periprosthetic distal femur fractures were treated in 2005, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Figure 1: Preoperative AP radiograph of the left distal femur showing a severely comminuted, periprosthetic ...

In the human body, the femur, the thigh bone is one of the largest and strongest bones which extends from the hip joint all the way down to the knee joint. Being the strongest bone, a significantly ...

A team of orthopedic surgeons from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has found that modern technology for healing distal femur fractures is as safe and effective as its ...

Physeal fractures in neonates are difficult to diagnose. They occur rarely and often are not easily detectable on radiographs. Suspicion of this injury usually arises when an infant demonstrates ...

Femoral neck fractures are intracapsular fractures. The capsule is the area that contains the fluid that lubricates and nourishes the hip joint. Fractures in this area are categorized based on the ...

What is a Femoral Neck Fracture? Fracture neck of femur is a type of hip fracture seen in elderly people. An unsteady gait or reduced bone mineral density, both of which may be seen in the elderly is ...

AMERICAN orthopedic surgeons have been skeptical about the use of medullary nailing of long-bone fractures. This, I think, is fortunate, as the slow acceptance of this technic has allowed us to avoid ...