With intraoperative femur fractures on the rise, surgeons should aim to prevent these fractures from occurring by identifying ...

Background: Femoral neck fractures in the elderly make up a large ... bleeding and the difficulty deciding the optimal timing of surgery. The aim of this systematic review is to examine the ...

Medically reviewed by Jennifer Steinhoff, MD Severe hip arthritis can cause pain and difficulty walking. Many people who have ...

1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, General Hospital of Jinan Military Command, 250031 Jinan, China. 2 Research on 2013 stage doctoral student of TCM Orthopaedics, Shandong University of ...

The upper part of her right femur snapped in a fall at the Sento Imperial Palace, the couple’s residence, on Oct. 6 and she underwent osteosynthesis surgery at the University of Tokyo Hospital.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva explained Friday that he will be undergoing surgery later this month to correct his femur problems. “I'm going to stop because, I want to confess ...

In Landis' case, the damage reportedly occurred in conjunction with a hip fracture he suffered in 2003 ... chief of joint replacement surgery at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York ...

The femur is the long bone in your thigh that connects your hip to your knee ... skin during this procedure. Fractures in the femur (thigh bone) usually require surgery. You may be put in a ...

So that we do not introduce bacteria into the wound that could be devasting to an implant we take extra precautions in surgery ... dislocated the hip and removed the femoral head, or ball to ...

The Imperial Household Agency announced on the morning of Oct. 8 that the surgery to repair the broken femur that Empress Emerita Michiko suffered in a fall has been successful. According to the ...