However, 4 months prior to her current presentation, she fell and sustained a left distal periprosthetic femur fracture (Figure 1). This was managed at an outside hospital with open reduction and ...

Radiographs and CT scan (Figure 1) demonstrated a complete intra-articular distal femur fracture. Of note ... of this patient was to perform an open reduction and internal fixation with the ...

A broken femur is usually caused by a severe accident; vehicle accidents are one of the primary causes. Older adults can fracture their femur from a fall because their bones tend to be weaker.

Most hip fractures occur in the femoral neck or intertrochanteric area. The bone widens at the lower end (distal aspect), which forms the top of the knee joint and connects to your shin bone ...

Severely comminuted distal femur fractures require anatomic internal fixation for best results, but obtaining rigid fixation of the multiple fragments may be challenging or impossible using ...

After the FIT trial ended, women were offered open-label alendronate ... and above the distal metaphyseal flare (hereafter termed subtrochanteric and diaphyseal femur fractures).

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 ...

A study in the current issue of the Journal of Orthopedic Trauma links Merck's osteoporosis drug Fosamax to a rare type of fracture in the femur. The small, observational study looked at 70 ...