Posterior comminution is an important cause of insecure fixation. More than half of the insecurely fixed fractures end in nonunion. Clinical experience and laboratory data support the use of 3 screws ...
Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results published in The Journal of Arthroplasty showed postoperative length of stay or mortality within 1 year ...
With increasing life expectancy, frailty and hip fractures will correspondingly increase in numbers, now at more than 300,000 fractures per year and projected to rise to more than 500,000 by 2040. Hip ...
1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, General Hospital of Jinan Military Command, 250031 Jinan, China. 2 Research on 2013 stage doctoral student of TCM Orthopaedics, Shandong University of Traditional ...
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 ...
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 ...
A recent article examines the relationship between bisphosphonates and atypical fractures of the femur. Physicians worldwide frequently prescribe bisphosphonates such as alendronate (Fosamax) and ...
The relative risk of an atypical femoral fracture with bisphosphonate use related to duration of therapy, with the highest risks being seen after 5 years of exposure, a nationwide study in Denmark ...
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