Background: Up to 30% of patients suffer from long-term functional restrictions following conservative treatment of distal radius fractures. Whether duration of cast immobilisation influences ...

To determine which parameters, including femur morphology, proximal femur bone mineral density, or patient characteristics, are associated with bisphosphonate-related atypical femur fractures (AFFs ..

Patients who could not be followed up and those with volar displaced fractures were excluded. We measured the rate of wrist fracture surgery at 6 weeks, patient demographics and variations in ...

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 ...

The tibial plateau is the top surface of the proximal tibia where the femur ... if the fracture is considered stable (a small crack that is not causing the bone to be displaced).

Osteoporosis is the most common cause of fragility fractures. These fractures—most frequently occurring at the hip, vertebra, proximal humerus and distal radius—are associated with an increased ...

Although there have been many reports of small bone and vertebral involvement in sarcoidosis, long bone pathology is rare. We report a case of almost identical bilateral fractures of the proximal ...

The tibia refers to the shinbone. Then-Charlotte Hornets guard Frank Ntilkina suffered a non-displaced fracture of his left tibia in Oct. 2023. The French guard missed 88 days. Paul George ...

1 The majority of fractures heal uneventfully, but those that ultimately fail to unite have wide-ranging implications for the patient and are a huge financial burden on the healthcare service. The ...