An 82-year-old woman with a medical history of diabetes mellitus type 2 (most recent hemoglobin A1c of 10.3%), atrial ...

Fractures can be open or closed. If your skin breaks open from the wound, doctors call it an open or compound fracture. If your skin doesn’t break, you have a closed or simple fracture.

A broken femur is usually caused by a severe accident; vehicle accidents are one of the primary causes. Older adults can fracture their femur from a fall because their bones tend to be weaker.

of femoral head and two reductions-open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) and closed reduction internal fixation (CRIF) for femoral neck fracture. Methods. A literature-based search was conducted ...

The hip joint connects the head of the femur and the pelvis like a ball and socket. Stress fractures, which can affect long-distance runners, can occur in the femoral neck. Fractures of the ...

Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Sunday evening that surgery to repair a fracture in his femur was “completely successful” and that he’s planning to return to the Senate for votes ...

Results from a recent multi-center, randomized, controlled trial demonstrate that testosterone gel does not improve ...