Treating a Femur Fracture 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 ...

Doyle, Daniel S. Horwitz, MD, and colleagues retrospectively reviewed data from nearly 3,000 intertrochanteric femur fractures treated with short proximal femoral nails between 2007 and 2023.

Article Published: 31 December 2013 Trabecular Plate Loss and Deteriorating Elastic Modulus of Femoral Trabecular Bone in Intertrochanteric Hip Fractures Ji Wang, Bin Zhou, Ian Parkinson, C. David ...

When compared to plate fixation, the proportion of intertrochanteric hip fractures treated with IM nailing increased from 3.3% to 63.1% between 1998 and 2007.

The paper “Proximal Femur Bionic Nail (PFBN): A Panacea for Unstable Intertrochanteric Femur Fracture,” authored by Kaixuan Zhang, Wei Chen, Yingze Zhang. Full text of the open access paper ...

4. For a clearly stable fracture, the sliding hip screw was always more cost effective than other options. On the other hand, the intramedullary nail always dominated for clearly unstable fractures 5.

The hip fracture market is growing rapidly, with more than 300,000 procedures in the US alone every year. 4 With an estimated annual cost of $12 -15 billion and an average reoperation rate of 6.6% ...

Intertrochanteric hip fracture was noticed in 475 cases and subcapital hip fracture in 237 cases. All the patients had no history of previous hip fracture, hip osteoarthritis, spinal cord disorders, ...

Healing Osteomyelitis After Intertrochanteric Femur Fracture A 62-year-old man's late postoperative infection after hip fracture surgery developed into osteomyelitis, but over a 2-year period he ...

Although these may seem like minor injuries, they are anything but. An eye-opening new study reveals that hip and spine fractures in older adults have lower survival rates than many types of cancer.