Femoral neck fractures are a common injury, particularly among older adults, and they often require surgical intervention to restore mobility and reduce complications. The management of these ...

Surgeons should identify high-risk patients and surgical risk factors ... to just see a little bit of femur and miss that neck cut. Those early postoperative fractures are almost all missed ...

Femoral neck fractures can be classified according to ... The optimal timing of such surgery, however, is not controversial. Polytrauma patients should have early long-bone stabilization followed ...

Neck of femur fractures (NOFF) are one of the major health concerns ... Postreduction, the joint was stable in all planes and the limb lengths were restored. A day after her surgery she remained a bit ...

The term "broken hip" usually refers to ... femoral shaft below the femoral neck – called a subtrochanteric fracture (least common) Hip fractures frequently occur in the elderly, people affected by ...

The Guidelines Project, an initiative of the Brazilian Medical Association, aims to combine information from the medical field in order to standardize procedures to assist the reasoning and ...

Background: Femoral neck fractures in the elderly make up a large proportion of Orthopaedic surgical admissions each year. Operating on patients with clopidogrel poses a challenge because of the ...

On questioning, she reported 10 weeks of atraumatic right hip pain. A radiograph revealed a displaced right subcapital neck of femur fracture. An MRI confirmed this, as well as identifying a minimally ...

Fracture types, surgical procedures, walking ability before the injury and at discharge, and waiting time from injury to surgery were obtained. Results: No significant difference was observed in ...

AST/ALT ratio may predict 1-year mortality in elderly patients operated for femoral neck fracture suggests a study published ...

surgical neck and humeral head. Because of the limited number of proximal humerus fractures, all proximal humerus factures were combined in the analyses without further classification. Multi-site ...