Distal femur fractures are significant injuries that often occur in both young and elderly populations, typically resulting from high-energy trauma or falls. The treatment of these fractures is ...

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 ...

He was taken to a local hospital and radiographic examination revealed a right-sided (open) complex distal femur fracture with bone loss and ipsilateral (open) mid-shaft tibia and fibula fracture. The ...

In some cases, it’s possible to treat a femur fracture without surgery. A nonsurgical approach may be considered if the fracture is not displaced—that is, if the ends of the bone are still in contact ...

Unless your bone has been weakened (most commonly the result of osteoporosis, medication side effects or cancer), it takes quite a lot of force to sustain a femur fracture. Since this bone is so ...

X-rays (3 images on left) illustrating an AO/OTA Type C3.3 distal femur fracture with segmental bone defect and an ipsilateral tibial shaft fracture; (3 images on right) anteroposterior and lateral ...

Objectives To determine and identify the characteristics and circumstances of femur fractures in ambulatory young children. Design and setting Retrospective review of 203 ambulatory children, between ...

Here we describe a case of closed internal circumferential degloving injury of the distal thigh with a distal femur fracture treated by an innovative technique involving negative pressure therapy, ...

Taking the osteoporosis drug alendronate (Fosamax) for a decade or more doesn’t appear to increase the risk of rare femur (thighbone) fractures (also known as atypical femoral fractures), according to ...

The patient underwent initial damage control intervention with insertion of bilateral distal femur skeletal traction. Definitive fixation of the acetabular fractures occurred 1 ... to fix the ...

The patient's growth plates were still open at the level of the proximal and distal femur. • Occurrence of a pathological fracture of the left femur in August 2023 • Closed reduction of the femoral ...