Correspondence Atypical Fractures of the Femoral Diaphysis in Postmenopausal Women Taking Alendronate Published March 20, 2008 N Engl J Med 2008;358: 1304 - 1306 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc0707493 ...

A healthy 36-year-old man presented to the ED with a 2-week history of draining wounds from the right thigh.He sustained an open right femur shaft fracture 2 years prior following a motorcycle ...

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Winquist and colleagues [1] reported that 16.5% of 520 femoral shaft fractures were open. Of those, 88.4% were type I, according to the Gustilo-Anderson classification of open fractures [2, 3]: ...

by Richard F. Kyle, MD Inserting an intramedullary rod is a vital and effective management approach to treating femoral shaft fractures, but there are tips and tricks a surgeon should follow to ...

Background: Stress fractures do not often occur in the shaft of the femur. They are more common in the femoral neck, the tibial shaft, the metatarsals, and other bones of the foot. In female athletes, ...

Up to 30% of femoral shaft fractures in children younger than 4 years is attributable to child abuse, and the most common cause of femur fractures in the nonambulatory infant is nonaccidental trauma.

DXA-analysis: research on bone mineral density variation, as measured by Dual Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry. (IMAGE) PLOS ...