Bone plating has been used as a method of fracture management for many years. Recently, a trend toward the use of fracture fixation techniques which preserve the local fracture environment, known as biological osteosynthesis, has evolved. This trend has resulted in the development of a less traumatic method of bone plating referred to as minimally invasive plate osteosynthesis (MIPO), or percut...

Rotation strain, caused by twisting of the knee. If weight is being borne on the flexed knee with the foot firmly anchored to the ground, the force of the injury in addition to stretching or tearing the coronary ligaments may cause a split or fracture of the semilunar cartilage. When no weight is borne, or if the foot be not held, the semilunar may escape. The modern football boot, with good st...

INTRODUCTION Preventing post-traumatic osteoarthritis is a challenging problem following acetabular fracture. Progressive osteoarthritis is considered to be caused by an irregular articular surface of the acetabular roof or cartilage injury, but little is known about the pathogenesis of collapse of the femoral head after acetabular fracture. We report a case of post-traumatic osteoarthritis aft...

A 35-year-old woman presented with a pathological fracture of a solitary cystic enchondroma in the proximal phalanx of her right index finger (extending to the articular surface with expansion of the cortex). The affected segment was excised and reconstructed with an autograft from the proximal phalanx of her right third toe. At the 2-year follow-up, the graft was well taken, the articular cart...

Skeletal tissues from children sustaining acute skeletal trauma were analyzed with detailed radiologic and histologic techniques to assess the failure patterns of the developing skeleton. In the physis- and epiphysis-specific fracture propagation varied, usually going through the portion of the hypertrophic zone adjacent to the metaphysis. However, the physeal fracture in types 1 and 2 sometime...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether a history of lumbar stress fracture in pace bowlers in cricket is a risk factor for lower limb muscle strains. METHODS This was a prospective cohort risk factor study, conducted using injury data from contracted first class pace bowlers in Australia during seasons 1998-1999 to 2008-2009 inclusive. There were 205 pace bowlers, 33 of whom suffered a lumbar stress fra...

A closed fracture was performed on the left tibia of 3-month-old Wistar rats weighing 250 to 350 g that were either healthy (N = 24) or made diabetic with alloxan (N = 24) to investigate the effect of alloxan-induced diabetes on the course of bone fracture healing. Histomorphometric analysis of the fracture site was performed at 7, 14, 25, and 35 days. After 7 days, diabetic rats had significan...

Secondary bone fracture healing is a physiological process that leads to functional tissue regeneration via endochondral bone formation. In vivo studies have demonstrated that early mobilization and the application of mechanical loads enhances the process of fracture healing. However, the influence of specific mechanical stimuli and particular effects during specific phases of fracture healing ...

The management of radial head fractures complicated by ligamentous disruption remains a matter of controversy. The use ofa silicone radial head implant to provide temporary stability is thought to help to protect the ligaments during healing. The reported complications of long-term implantation of a silicone replacement include fracture, dislocation, synovitis, lymphadenitis and subchondral res...

Introduction: Predictors of fracture risk differ between cervical and trochanteric hip fractures. The aim of this experimental study was therefore to investigate whether two-dimensional (2D) finite element (FE) models, generated from standard radiographs, are able to predict and discriminate fracture types, originating from a simulated fall on the greater trochanter. Methods: A semi-automatic c...