Case reports Femoral head. Three patients have been treated. A 22year-old man sustained an osteochondral fracture of the femoral head. The grossly displaced fragment was reduced and held with four Herbert screws (Fig. 1). At one year hip flexion was 100#{176}, there was no evidence of avascular necrosis or segmental collapse, and the patient had returned to work as a warehouseman. The second pa...

The cause of fracture of the femoral neck after hip resurfacing is poorly understood. In order to evaluate the role of avascular necrosis we compared 19 femoral heads retrieved at revision for fracture of the femoral neck and 13 retrieved for other reasons. We developed a new technique of assessing avascular necrosis in the femoral head by determining the percentage of empty osteocyte lacunae p...

BACKGROUND Femoral neck fractures typically occur as a result of high-energy mechanisms among non-geriatric patients. Complications, including femoral neck shortening, non-union, and avascular necrosis, are relatively common after the internal fixation of this fracture pattern. These complications have serious effects on young patients. The Pauwels classification, which is the first biomechanic...

The source of continued hip pain following fixation of traumatic femoral shaft fracture is not always clear. Intra-articular hip pathology is often overlooked when evaluating the etiology of residual pain. The purpose of this study was to describe cases of intra-articular hip pathology following traumatic femoral shaft fracture. This was a retrospective case series of patients presenting to a p...

Objective: We present a case of a femoral stress fracture in a male Division I basketball player. Background: During post-season conditioning, the athlete (21 years, 200 cm, 102.3 kg) presented to the team physician with anterior mid-thigh pain. He reported intense pain that had progressively increased a month before he sought medical advice. The athlete indicated that the pain had spread from ...

BACKGROUND Posttraumatic and/or postsurgical knee stiffness is one of the orthopedic complications which is difficult to be treated and can affect individual's life negatively. The aim of this study is to investigate the results of quadricepsplasty in patients with knee stiffness resulted from femoral fracture. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a cross-sectional study on all patients with femoral...

This review considers methods used to quantify lag screw placement within the femoral head following proximal femoral fracture. Implants used for fixation of femoral neck fractures can lead to unwanted outcomes in some patients. Cutting out of the screw within the femoral head has been shown to be the commonest cause of failure and is related to lag screw placement within the femur. Until now, ...

hip dislocation occurs when the femur does not break and the force is transmitted towards the hip joint leading to a posterior dislocation of the femoral head with or without posterior acetabular fracture. we present the case of a 26 year old patient involved in motor vehicle accident. clinical and imaging (radiography, ct) examination revealed an intertrochanteric fracture associated with ipsi...