Background: The most feared complication of fracture management is non-union. Non-union can be the following types, hypertrophic, oligotrophic, atrophic, and septic. In view a non-union, exchange nailing preferred so routinely performed for non-unions fractures tibia. Case Presentation: Here, we present case an implant failure from atraumatic event in atrophic non-union tibia, which was treated...

Tibia fractures in children are generally treated successfully by conservative means. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of fixation using Titanium elastic nails (TEN) in pediatric tibia fractures in which conservative measures failed or were deemed inapplicable. In this study, 30 patients who had tibia fractures and were fixated with TEN between 2007 and 2011 were an...

The objective of this postmortem study was to determine the fracture configurations of the equine radius and tibia after a simulated kick. Fracture configurations of 35 radii and 36 tibiae from 19 adult horses were evaluated after a simulated kick in an experimental ex-vivo study. The bones were dissected, the proximal and distal ends were embedded in resin, fixed horizontally and preloaded in ...

Distal tibia fractures are 7-10% of alltibial fractures and they are caused both by high and low energy traumas with different fracture pattern. We present a case report of a 23 year old female affected by mental delay, who fall down in March 2014 reporting the fracture of the distal tibia. She has been operated in emergency with two elastic nails and a lag screw. Two months after she has been ...

Introduction Open femoral fractures are relatively uncommon occurrences, with few reports addressing their management. They are caused by high-energy mechanisms, and bone loss is a possible, but infrequent occurrence. We present a case in which two friends, 20- and 21-year-old males, were involved in a motorcycle collision. A large piece of bone was ejected from one patient's femur as a bony pr...

CONTEXT Stress fractures are common injuries in athletes, often difficult to diagnose. A stress fracture is a fatigue-induced fracture of bone caused by repeated applications of stress over time. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION PubMed articles published from 1974 to January 2012. RESULTS Intrinsic and extrinsic factors may predict the risk of stress fractures in athletes, including bone health, traini...

Many fractures occur in individuals without osteoporosis defined by areal bone mineral density (aBMD). Inclusion of other aspects of skeletal strength may be useful in identifying at-risk subjects. We used surrogate measures of bone strength at the radius and tibia measured by peripheral quantitative computed tomography (pQCT) to evaluate their relationships with nonvertebral fracture risk. Fem...

INTRODUCTION Injuries of the hip joint from pure hip dislocations to fracture dislocations have been described and classified by various authors. These descriptions do not include fracture dislocation of hip associated with fracture of the greater trochanter. CASE REPORT We report an unusual case of fracture dislocation of hip in which posterior dislocation of hip was associated with fracture...

In a study of 23 intra-articular fractures of the distal tibia of which 18 were re-examined after an average follow-up period of 5.4 years, two major fracture patterns were identified: type A, a rotational pattern, caused by low energy trauma and type B, a compressive fracture pattern caused by high energy trauma. Type B fractures could be divided into three subgroups: 1) An isolated fracture o...