Distal radius fractures are an increasingly prevalent upper extremity injury, especially among elderly patients. They represent approximately 3% of all upper extremity injures. Severity of these fractures is directly related to bone mineral density of the patient, and clinical results are dependent on this parameter as well. There is a bimodal distribution of these injuries, with a peak between...

Pelvic fractures have been the domain of conservative treatment and reduction by closed methods for a long time. In the last decades advances in classification and understanding of these often very complex fractures have been made. They are now discriminated into fractures of the apophysis, acetablar fractures and fractures of the pelvic ring. By a better understanding of the functional biomech...

Spinal injuries pose a considerable risk to life and quality of life. In spite of improvements in active and passive safety of motor vehicles, car accidents are regarded as a major cause for vertebral fractures. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the current incidence of vertebral fractures among front-seat occupants in motor vehicle accidents, and to identify specific risk factors for s...

This study was undertaken to determine the anatomic distribution and different methods of treatment of midface fractures. Ninety-seven consecutive patients with midface fractures were treated at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, de,Montmorency College of Dentistry, Punjab Dental Hospital, Lahore during the year 2001-2002. A review of patients’ records and radiographs were conduc...

Galeazzi fractures represent approximately 3 to 6 percent of forearm fractures, whereas Monteggia fractures represent 1 to 2 percent. The combination of these injuries in the same extremity is an exceedingly rare occurrence. We report a case of ipsilateral combination of Galeazzi and Monteggia fractures in a ten-year-old patient. The patient was treated with closed reduction and internal fixati...

BACKGROUND talar fractures are rare and potentially invalidating injuries. Traditional x-ray projections often do not provide comprehensive and exhaustive view of the talus; in order to determine the best therapeutic strategy and obtain early and precise prognostic data diagnostic examination usually includes oblique projections and computed tomography scans. In displaced fractures treatment is...

Pilon fractures are complex and difficult-to-treat fractures of the lower extremity that account for about 1% of all lower extremity fractures and up to 10% of tibial fractures. The injury is caused by high energy axial load either from motor vehicle accidents or a fall from height. The treatment of these fractures has caused controversy among surgeons due to mixed outcomes. Here we report a ca...

The formation of dense spacing fracture network is crucial to the hydraulic fracturing treatment of unconventional reservoir. However, one difficulty for fracturing treatment is the lack of clear understanding on the nature of fracture complexity created during the treatment. In this paper, fracture propagation is numerically investigated to find the conditions needed for the stable propagation...

We evaluated effects of an injectable complex of β-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP) granules, hyaluronate, and recombinant human fibroblast growth factor-2 (rhFGF-2) on repair of unstable intertrochanteric fractures in elderly patients. Twenty-five patients (range, 76-91 years) having 31.A2 fractures (AO classification) were treated with injection of the complex followed by intramedullary nails. Bo...

The recently developed Unconventional Fracture Model (UFM*) simulates complex hydraulic fracture network propagation in a formation with pre-existing closed natural fractures, and explicitly models hydraulic injection into a fracture network with multiple propagating branches [1]. The model predicts whether a hydraulic fracture front crosses or is arrested by a natural fracture it encounters, w...