ORLANDO, Fla. — Surgery can dramatically improve quality of life for patients with pathologic hip fractures. But before intervening, orthopedic surgeons should watch for signs of metastatic disease ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . VIENNA — A retrieval morphologic study has found that two distinct adverse factors, namely biomechanical ...

A fracture is a break in your bone. A break is called a pathologic fracture when force or impact didn’t cause the break to happen. Instead, an underlying disease leaves your bones weak and brittle.

AMERICAN orthopedic surgeons have been skeptical about the use of medullary nailing of long-bone fractures. This, I think, is fortunate, as the slow acceptance of this technic has allowed us to avoid ...

In the human body, the femur, the thigh bone is one of the largest and strongest bones which extends from the hip joint all the way down to the knee joint. Being the strongest bone, a significantly ...

BALTIMORE -- The use of long-stem hemiarthroplasty (LSHA) did not improve quality-of-life (QoL) or functional outcomes compared to intramedullary nailing (IMN) in treating pathological fractures of ...

Pathological fractures occur in bone that lacks normal biochemical and viscoelastic properties. A few conditions are involved in the aetiology of fractures during infancy. Accurate and careful ...

Your femur connects many important muscles, tendons, and ligaments in your hips and knees to the other parts of your body, including parts of the circulatory system. More than that, it helps you carry ...