background fractures of the knee account for about 6% of all trauma admissions. while its management is mostly focused on fracture treatment, it is not the only factor that defines the final outcome. objectives this study aimed to study objective and subjective outcomes after proximal tibial versus distal femoral fractures in terms of knee instability and health-related quality of life. patient...

A wide array of field observations, in situ testing, and rock and water sampling (and subsequent analyses) within the unsaturated zone (UZ) of Yucca Mountain demonstrate the importance of fractures to flow and transport in the welded tuffs. The abundance of fractures and the spatial variability in their hydraulic properties, along with the heterogeneity within lithologic formations, make evalua...

Fractures commonly exist in rock masses; the coalescence of fractures provides fluid flow pathways a fractured mass and greatly increases capacity rock. This work aims to study characteristics nonlinear fractures. A series tests were conducted indicated that Forchheimer law performed well when describing relationship between hydraulic gradient flow. The test results also indicate higher water p...

Hydraulic dispersion in porous media and in fracture networks results in the spreading of the timedependent tracer signal. In geothermal reservoirs the wellbore often intersects fractures that are separated by tens or even hundreds of meters. The mixing in the wellbore at those separated fractures is also a source of dispersion, since tracer signals sampled at the wellhead are a mixture of the ...

Femur fractures are common in paediatric population and femoral shaft fractures have an incidense of 1.4-1.7% of all paediatric fractures. These are often seen in boys rather than girls. Most of the fractures are transverse, non-comminuted and closed [1]. The mechanism of the femoral shaft fracture for older children is associated with high-energy transmission such as traffic accidents. Combine...

Abstract Convection-driven cooling in porous media influences thermo-poro-mechanical stresses, thereby causing deformation. These processes are strongly influenced by the presence of fractures, which dominate flow and heat transfer. At same time, fractures deform propagate response to changes stress state. Mathematically, model governing physics is tightly coupled must account for strong discon...

  Background: Fractures of the femoral shaft are mostly the result of high-energy accidents that also cause multiple trauma injuries, in particular ipsilateral knee and hip injuries. The purpose of this study was to investigate the incidence of injuries associated with femoral shaft fractures and how many of them were undetected. Methods: We studied 148 patients (150 femoral shaft fractures) wi...

We consider a fractured porous medium that is studied at a scale such that the fractures can be modeled individually. Models for flow in which the fractures are interfaces between subdomains are presented. These models take into account interactions between the fractures and the surrounding porous medium. Existence and uniqueness of the solution to the model problem are proved. Error estimates ...

evidence acquisition a search of pubmed for studies on proximal fifth metatarsal fracture and jones fracture focusing on the classification and management was performed. the reference list of the retrieved articles was searched for additional related studies. conclusions lawrence and botte’s classification of proximal fifth metatarsal fractures is recommended by experts, due to its implication ...