OBJECTIVE To report a unique complication of the surgical treatment of femoral neck fractures. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A young adult presented with lower abdominal pain and bleeding per rectum caused by rectal transfixion by Kirschner wires (K wires). The wires were used to fix a fracture on the neck of the femur during the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait. A plain X-ray showed an ol...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the correlation between radiographic parameters of the proximal femur anatomy and fractures. METHODS Three hundred and five digital x-rays of the pelvis were analyzed in the anteroposterior view. Of these x-rays, twenty-seven showed femoral neck or transtrochanteric fractures. The anatomical parameters analyzed were: femoral neck width (FNW), femoral neck length (FNL), f...

A subtrochanteric femur fracture after cannulated screw fixation of a femoral neck fracture is a devastating complication. We hypothesized that an apex-distal screw orientation would tolerate higher loads to subtrochanteric fracture. Human cadaveric femora were instrumented with three cannulated screws in either an apex-distal or an apex-proximal configuration. Specimens were loaded along the m...

Background: Intertrochanteric Femur fracture is common in elderly patient with co-morbidity Aims & Objectives: Clinico-radiological evaluation of results of Ender’s nail and cannulated cancellous screw fixation in case of intertrochanteric fracture of femur in elderly patient with preexisting comorbid condition, and functional recovery in those patients. Results: The patients mainly belong to e...

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 Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a condition characterised by bone fragility and multiple fractures, which cause considerable morbidity in the affected patients. Most cases are associated with mutations in one of the type I collagen genes. Recently, bisphosponates have been used widely to reduce pain and the incidence of fragility fractures in OI in children, even though there have been ...

Femoral neck stress fracture (FNSF) is an uncommon but potentially serious orthopaedic problem. This is a case report on missed femoral neck stress fracture in a 62-year-old female who was initially treated as early-onset coxarthrosis. She later presented to us with a displaced intra-capsular neck of left femur fracture and underwent total hip replacement. This case illustrates that causes othe...