Careful planning of operations is critical to success of the closed reduction and internal fixation (CRIF) surgery to fix proximal femur fractures. This paper presents a novel surgery planning simulation for the CRIF. The developed simulation employs 3D femur model reconstructed from actual patient’s CT data, and enables the user to make a plan on the model using 2D mouse. A projection scheme i...

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...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the risk of death or severe harm due to bone cement implantation syndrome (BCIS) among patients undergoing hip hemiarthroplasty for fractured neck of femur. SETTING Hospitals providing secondary and tertiary care throughout the National Health Service (NHS) in England and Wales. PARTICIPANTS Cases reported to the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) in which t...

Bisphosphonate is notable for the treatment of osteoporosis in the world. But recently if Bisphosphonate is taken for a long time, it causes an insufficiency fracture by suppression of bone turn-over and it is reported rarely on femur neck. Here we report a case of insufficiency fracture on ipsilateral femur neck in woman treated with long term Bisphosphonate therapy.

Since the recognition of the existence of intracapsular fracture neck femur by Ambrose Pare almost 400 years ago, the management of intracapsular neck femur fracture has undergone many changes. 1 The multitude of various implants designed and techniques available for its treatment themselves indicate the inadequacy of the various methods of treatment. No single method of treatment has been able...

Objective: Femur is the strongest, longest and heaviest bone in the human body. Due to the great importance of femur in human body, its injury may cause large numbers of disabilities and mortality. Considering various effective parameters such as mechanical properties, geometry, loading configuration, etc. can propel the study to the trustable results.. Methods: A 3D finite element model of the...

The aim of our study was to investigate whether placing of the femoral component of a hip resurfacing in valgus protected against spontaneous fracture of the femoral neck. We performed a hip resurfacing in 20 pairs of embalmed femora. The femoral component was implanted at the natural neck-shaft angle in the left femur and with a 10 degrees valgus angle on the right. The bone mineral density of...

OBJECTIVE To determine, through bone histomorphometry in femoral neck, whether there are differences in the cancellous bone of the proximal femur from female patients over 60 years old who had femoral neck fracture and similar patients who did not have such fracture. METHODS We analyzed the trabecular part of the femur of 13 female patients, aged over 60 years old, by the bone histomorphometr...