Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The intramedullary hip screw may represent a viable option for the treatment of reverse oblique ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sliding hip screws may become the preferred device for stable peritrochanteric hip fractures based on recent ...

Metal screws are indispensable in bone surgery, but they can fail under everyday stress and complications can occur when screws loosen or even break. Until now, it has been difficult to accurately ...

People who sustain the most common type of hip fracture are at increased risk of complications. A special type of MRI has been developed that can show a detailed image following fracture repair, ...

Patients who received intramedullary nails (IMNs) to repair trochanteric fractures reported no difference in health-related quality of life compared with those who received sliding hip screws (SHS), ...

The Ilizarov method is routinely used in eastern Europe in the treatment of bone fractures. Studies of Swedish patients have shown that the unorthodox steel frame has many advantages over traditional ...

A technique to manage an unusual presentation of an implant abutment screw fracture is presented. Causes of abutment screw loosening and fracture are reviewed. Design features that improve the ...

Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) is a type of surgery used to repair broken bones that need to be put back together. During the surgery, some form of hardware is used to hold the bone in ...

Q. Last week, my 81-year-old mother fell breaking her right hip. The orthopedic surgeon she saw at the emergency room recommended surgery. She had a hip replacement done for her fracture, although she ...

The most common type of hip fracture, the femoral neck fracture, increases the risk of complications for the patients. A special type of MRI developed at Hospital for Special Surgery in collaboration ...