BACKGROUND Distal radius and proximal femoral fractures are typical injuries in later life, predominantly due to simple falls, but modulated by other relevant factors such as osteoporosis. Fracture incidence rates rise with age. Because of the growing proportion of elderly people in Western industrialized societies, the number of these fractures can be expected to increase further in the coming...

BACKGROUND Hip fractures are a major public health burden. In industrialized countries about 20% of all femoral fractures occur in care dependent persons living in nursing care and assisted living facilities. Preventive strategies for these groups are needed as the access to medical services differs from independent home dwelling older persons at risk of osteoporotic fractures. It was the objec...

The aim of this study was to assess the influence of bone mineral density and hip geometry on the fragility fracture of femoral neck and trochanteric region. There were 95 menopausal females of age ≥ 50 years with fragility fracture of hip, including 55 cases of femoral neck fracture and 40 cases of trochanteric fracture. Another 63 non-fractured females with normal bone mineral density (BMD) w...

PURPOSE To explore the possible surgical factors related with nonunion in femoral shaft fracture following intramedullary nailing. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed totally 425 patients with femoral shaft fracture in level I urban trauma center, including 254 males and 171 females, with an average age of 37.6 (ranging from 21 to 56) years old. The inclusion criteria included: (1) traumatica...

The authors report a case of secondary femoral fracture through the sliding hip screw portal following fixation of the femoral neck fracture. The femoral neck and subtrochanteric fracture was successfully treated by superimposing a trochanteric stabilization plate (TSP) onto the regular sliding hip screw.

BACKGROUND There is increasing evidence associating "atypical" femoral fractures with prolonged exposure to bisphosphonate therapy. The cause of these fractures is unknown and likely multifactorial. This study evaluated the hypothesis that patients with primary osteoporosis who sustain atypical femoral fracture(s) while on chronic bisphosphonate therapy have a more varus proximal femoral geomet...

The orthopedic hind limb affections in dogs constituted 31.99 % of the admitted cases to the Surgery clinic, Faculty of Vet. Med. Cairo univ., while the corresponding percentage in cats was 11.70 % during the period from October 2010 to April 2013. Pelvic limb fractures accounted for 50.60 % of the orthopedic dog patients, whereas, pelvic limb fracture in cats represented 69.39%. Femoral fractu...

Mechanisms of femoral fracture of the condyles and shaft were experimentally investigated through controlled knee impact ofdenuded femurs in six human cadavers. High-speed movies recorded knee joint compression, femoral displacements and deformation, and fracture initiation. Fracture initiated at 10.6 + 2.7 kN knee load after 1.3 + 0.1 cm ofknec joint compression for a 10.1 kg rigid impact at 1...

BACKGROUND Proximal femoral geometry may be a risk factor of osteoporotic hip fractures. However, there existed great differences among studies depending on race, sex and age of subjects. The purpose of the present study is to analyze proximal femoral geometry and bone mineral density (BMD) in the osteoporotic hip fracture patients. Furthermore, we investigated proximal femoral geometric parame...