A 26-year-old man who was in a motorcycle crash arrived at the ED with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 3T. Following stabilization in the trauma bay, trauma scans were obtained.The patient sustained ...

Femoral neck fracture is the most common cause of revision after hip resurfacing arthroplasty, and women undergoing the procedure had significantly higher revision rates compared with men ...

The estimated number of hip fractures worldwide will rise from 1.7 million in 1990 to 6.3 million in 2050. 2 Femoral neck fractures represent approximately 50% of these cases. 3 ...

A study by Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) and other centers found that total hip replacement performed with a cementless prosthesis for a femoral neck fracture led to a higher rate of a second ...

Among the men and women, 88.9% and 87.2% were White, 49.2% and 71.5% had no history of hip fracture after age 50 years, and 66.4% and 65.9% had no falls in the past year, respectively.

The femoral neck, the area just below the ball of the hip's ball-and-socket joint, is the most common site of fracture, accounting for 45 to 53 percent of cases.

Since the first report of this injury pattern by Delaney and Street in 1953, [1] the late diagnosis of occult femoral neck fracture associated with ipsilateral femoral shaft fracture has been ...

Kevin K. Kang, MD, from Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York City, and colleagues randomly assigned 50 patients with an isolated intracapsular femoral neck fracture and treated with hip ...