BACKGROUND This randomized, parallel-group, non-blinded study was designed to determine the role of fibular fixation in the treatment outcomes of combined distal tibia and fibula fractures. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty patients with distal tibial and fibular fractures were randomly divided in two groups of case and controls. In the case group, fibula was fixed prior to the fixation of tibia. I...

Fibula production can be proven in the case of several Pannonian bronze workshops and among these, Brigetio as well. Similar fibula variations from a close territory refer to certain area but archaeological finds which belong manufacturing process are more trustworthy evidences. Regarding fibulae produced Brigetio, I. Kovrig, E. Patek, É. B. Bónis, K. Szabó, M. Merczi N. Sey have already publis...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) triggers rapid loss of trabecular bone mineral density (BMD) in bone epiphyses and a loss of cortical cross-sectional area (CSA) in bone diaphyses, increasing fracture risk for people with SCI. The purpose of this study was to measure trabecular BMD and cortical CSA loss at several previously unexamined lower-limb sites (4% fibula, 12% femur, 86% tibia, cortical) in ind...

background: several systemic factors and hormones are thought to regulate the fracture healing process. vitamin d has emerged as a compound or hormone that actively participates in the regulation of calcium homeostasis and bone metabolism. objectives: the aim of this study is to determine the serum changes in the level of vitamin d during the acute healing period of tibial and femoral shaft fra...

OBJECTIVES To identify the risk factors for long bone fractures in non-ambulatory cerebral palsy children. DESIGN. Case-control study. SETTING A residential rehabilitation centre in Hong Kong. PATIENTS The fracture group comprised 19 (13 male, 6 female) cerebral palsy children aged 4 years 5 months to 18 years 11 months (mean, 10 years; standard deviation, 3 years 9 months), who had their f...

OBJECTIVE To determine the occurrence of bruising near the site of fracture in a group of children with inflicted fractures. DESIGN Case series. SETTING Two children's hospitals. PARTICIPANTS Suspected child abuse victims with fractures. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE The presence of bruising and fracture in a single body region or appendage. RESULTS The study included 192 children with inflict...

The article presents a very rare case of bilateral distal tibial and fibular stress fractures in a 58-year-old white male. Excessive work load was undoubtedly the direct cause of the fractures as the patient's job involved carrying heavy (about 7 kg) packs of newspapers up stairs for 4 hours every night, with the distance covered amounting to approximately 80 floors. The available literature do...

Sundeep r Bhat, MD, is an Emergency Medicine Resident in the Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency Program. E-mail: [email protected]. Gus M Garmel, MD, fACEP, fAAEM, is a Senior Emergency Medicine Physician at the Santa Clara Medical Center. He is also the Co-Program Director of the Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency Program, and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine (...

Height has been associated with increased risk of fracture of the neck of femur. However, information on the association of height with fractures at other sites is limited and conflicting. A total of 796,081 postmenopausal women, who reported on health and lifestyle factors including a history of previous fractures and osteoporosis, were followed for 8 years for incident fracture at various sit...