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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 ...

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 ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

Long-term bisphosphonate therapy can change bones at the microscopic level to make them more susceptible to the rare catastrophic transverse breaks known as atypical femoral fractures (AFFs), ...

This is a case of a 7-year-old girl referred to our clinic in 2018 for an aggressive left distal femur mass.The patient had ...

Your femur connects many important muscles, tendons, and ligaments in your hips and knees to the other parts of your body, including parts of the circulatory system. More than that, it helps you carry ...

In about 70% of patients, pain in the thigh or groin may be present for several weeks or months before the atypical femoral fracture occurs.1 Patients receiving long-term antiresorptive treatment (e.g ...

Q: Femoral Stress Fractures: I was diagnosed with two femoral stress fractures about 6 weeks ago. They are result of marathon training and are in the interotrochanteric area. Initially the doc told me ...