Severely comminuted distal femur fractures require anatomic internal fixation for best results, but obtaining rigid fixation of the multiple fragments may be challenging or impossible using ...

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

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 these women, 1271 had a femoral subtrochanteric or shaft fracture (International Classification of Diseases ... major involvement of a trochanter or distal condyle, 238 were associated with ...