A 71-year-old woman visited our hospital with a feeling of dullness in her left hip joint in March 2012. A plain radiography of her left femur showed irregularly increased density with interspersed radiolucent areas at the left proximal femur. The cortex of the left femur was enlarged. The patient was diagnosed with Paget’s disease. She was treated with bisphosphonates (35 mg/week alendronic ac...

The Birmingham Mid Head Resection (BMHR) arthroplasty can be used as an alternative to conventional stemmed total hip arthroplasty in young patients unsuitable for hip resurfacing. This study investigated the effect of stem size on femoral neck fracture in the BMHR. Sawbones composite femurs were randomly allocated to one of the following groups: 1) Unprepared femur with no prosthesis; 2) Femur...

BACKGROUND The incidence of distal femur fracture in the elderly has been increasing recently, and commonly occurs with osteoporosis. Retrograde intramedullary nailing has been considered a good surgical option for distal femur fracture. The purpose of the present study was to present our surgical results with retrograde intramedullary nailing for distal femur fractures with osteoporosis. MET...

Purpose Spica casting of femoral shaft fractures is standard practice for young children. In 1983, Dr. Rang published an illustration demonstrating that radiographs can be misleading when measuring femoral fracture shortening. Today, fluoroscopy is used to determine shortening after closed reduction and spica casting. This paper aims to determine the accuracy of fluoroscopy when measuring 25 mm...

RATIONALE The treatment of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) requires a multidisciplinary approach to maximize function and reduce fracture incidence. The aim of this case report was to discuss an alternative surgical approach to stabilize a corrective osteotomy using the Fassier Duval (FD) system in an OI patient. PATIENT CONCERNS A 20-year-old OI woman presented with left thigh pain, gait distur...

BACKGROUND Pelvic reconstruction after hemipelvectomy can greatly improve the weight-bearing stability of the supporting skeleton and improve patients' quality of life. Although an autograft can be used to reconstruct pelvic defects, the most suitable choice of autograft, i.e., the use of either femur or tibia, has not been determined. We aimed to analyze the mechanical stresses of a pelvic rin...

Background: Intracapsular fractures of neck femur have always presented a great challenge to orthopaedics surgeons and remain in many ways the unsolved fracture as far as treatment and results are concerned. Methods: Cases included in this study are transcervical and subcapital fracture neck femur in patients less than 60 yrs of age managed in Sir JJ Hospital, Mumbai -08. Results: Fracture type...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of exclusive lower extremity metastases, specifically in the femur and below the knee, observed at (18)F-NaF PET/CT. MATERIALS AND METHODS One thousand consecutive PET/CT studies were retrospectively evaluated for the presence of exclusive uptake in lower extremities suggesting metastatic involvement. The presumptive diagnoses based on such uptakes were su...

Femur bone is the longest and largest bone found in human body. It is also one of the most commonly fractured bones of human body, especially for the elderly. In this paper, vibration analysis of femur bone is studied by the help of finite element simulation to provide more insight in designing bio-aided equipments or protective sports equipments for femur. The simulations were performed using ...

This study used computer simulation to endeavor to quantify the relative degree of difficulty of resurfacing femora with pistol-grip deformities compared to relatively normal femora. Computer models of five pistol-grip femora and one relatively normal femur were computed from computed tomography (CT) scans of patients who had undergone computer-assisted hip resurfacing. A computer simulation of...