An 82-year-old woman with a medical history of diabetes mellitus type 2 (most recent hemoglobin A1c of 10.3%), atrial ...

The bone widens at the lower end (distal aspect), which forms the top of the knee joint and connects to your shin bone (tibia) and patella (kneecap). Your femur is covered on all sides by your ...

We see more than 50 to 70 distal femur periprosthetic fractures a year, and only one or two a year have a loose femoral flange or inadequate bone stock for fixation. Two studies have shown a ...

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 ...

which is distal to the shoulder. Or, similarly, the femur is proximal to the knee, which is proximal to the ankle, which is proximal to the toes.

But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break ...

would reveal if the femur was adapted for bearing all the body weight on one leg at a time. Similarly, the distal knee end would show if alignment kept body weight beneath body’s center of ...

“Pain during running might be tolerated by runners, but it can be a sign of real injury.” Three miles later, in continuing pain, Arrington’s right femur snapped in half. She collapsed on the ground, ...

Rabin SI. In Severely Comminuted Intercondylar-Supracondylar Distal Femur Fractures, Use the Device That Fits. MedGenMed 1(3), 1999 [formerly published in Medscape Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine ...