One kind is a comminuted fracture. This injury happens when your bone breaks into three or more pieces. ... If your skin breaks open from the wound, doctors call it an open or compound fracture.

Tiger Woods suffered comminuted open fractures in his lower right leg. We explain what that injury is and what's required to care for it. Sports newsletter 🏈's best, via 📧 Studio IX 🏀⚽ ...

His right tibia, or shinbone, broke through the skin in what’s called an open or compound fracture. Open fractures often cause damage to the surrounding muscles, tendons and ligaments, according ...

Tiger Woods’ rollover car crash led to serious leg injuries and a flurry of medical terms most people aren’t familiar with. The 45-year-old golf legend was rushed to Harbor-UCLA Medical Center ...

Open fracture (compound fracture) Share on Pinterest Simple and compound fibula fractures are classified depending on whether the skin has been broken or the bone is exposed.

An open fracture, also called a compound fracture, is one where there is a break in the skin or an open wound near the fracture. In a closed fracture, the bone will not penetrate the skin.

Surgery to treat an open talus fracture often involves much more than lining up the broken pieces of bone. Pins or screws may be needed, as well as treatment of the damaged muscles and other tissue.

A 40-year-old woman who was obese with osteogenesis imperfecta was involved in a high-speed motor vehicle collision and was brought to the ED after being intubated on the scene for Glasgow Coma ...

PARIS -- Arthur Fils pulled out of the French Open because of a stress fracture in his lower back and could miss Wimbledon while sidelined for at least a month, he said at a news conference Saturday.