OrthoPediatrics Corp. (“OrthoPediatrics” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: KIDS), a company focused exclusively on advancing the field of pediatric orthopedics, today announced the US launch and first ...

British investigators recommended using the sliding hip screw rather than the long gamma nail for fixation of AO/OTA 31-A2 fractures of the proximal part of the femur, according to an article ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — During a session on hip fractures at the Current Concepts in Joint Replacement Winter Meeting, here, William J. Hozack, MD, shared his insights and recommendations for ...

The main part of the femoral head and the femoral neck is saved during the arthroplasty, which it is thought to eliminate the problems of proximal femoral stress shielding and osteolysis and to ...

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 ...

Background: Proximal femur endoprosthetic replacement (PFER) has become aprimary treatment option for aggressive benign and malignant tumors of proximal femur allowing early return to weight bearing ...

Results: Groups were similar at baseline and did not differ in weight, height, total body, lumbar spine, proximal femur, or femoral neck BMC. Control children had a greater increase in adjusted total ...

We sat down with Sports Medicine Specialist Dr. Kelly Krei to learn about Proximal Femoral Pain in Adolescents, how to identify it, and what you can do to help treat it.

Background: To analyse the five-year survival rate in patients with proximal femoral tumours after total hip replacement. Methods: Between the period of 1994–2003, 50 patients were operated (Total Hip ...

In the dual femur BMD analysis ten custom made regions of interest (ROI) were defined: ROIs 1-6 were determined according to Kishida et al; [8] ROIs 1-3 corresponded to superolateral zones and ...