Background. A meta-analysis was performed to assess the association between healing rate, avascular necrosis (AVN) of femoral head and two reductions-open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) and ...

Article content. Just hours before he was killed with a hammer, Steffen Pohl called police to report that his roommate had taken “bad mushrooms” and was trying to “murder him.” ...

Keywords: subcapital femoral neck fracture, arthroscopically assisted reduction and internal fixation (ARIF), reduction quality, minimal invasion, case. Citation: Du D, Zheng C, Xue M, Chen J, Ma Y, ...

And some authors caution against fixation of comminuted femoral neck fractures in the elderly. In 1980, Scheck [ 1 ] reported that 40%-70% of femoral neck fractures have posteromedial comminution.

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 ...

Femoral neck BMD had better prognostic power for 5-year hip fracture risk than the FRAX and Garvan models among adults aged 80 years and older. The incorporation of femoral neck bone mineral ...

The accuracy of screw placement is a key factor for the stability of the cannulated screws used in the fixation of femoral neck fractures. In this study we designed a navigation device for ensuring ...

In patients with moderate to severe dementia and femoral head and neck fracture, mortality at 180 days was 31.8% in the surgical treatment group and 45.7% in the nonsurgical treatment group ...

A femoral shaft fracture usually causes immediate, severe pain. You won’t be able to put weight on the leg. The injured leg may look shorter than the other leg and no longer straight.