The role of medical, social, and functional covariates on mortality after hip fracture was examined over a 16-year period. A total of 1109 patients with hip fractures were included in a prospective database. The inclusion criteria were patients who were age 65 years or older, ambulatory prior to fracture, cognitively intact, living in their own home at the time of the fracture, and had sustaine...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine how physical and morphological properties affect the fracture resistance of roots, and which criteria are important for root specimen standardization in fracture resistance studies. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy-five freshly extracted human canine teeth were selected. Crowns were sectioned from the cement-enamel junction and the root lengths we...

The emergence of a new variant of subtrochanteric stress fractures of the femur, affecting patients on oral bisphosphonate therapy, has only recently been described. This fracture is often preceded by pain and distinctive radiographic changes (lateral cortical thickening), and associated with a characteristic fracture pattern (transverse fracture line and medial cortical spike). A retrospective...

OBJECTIVE To determine the proportion of patients with fragility fractures who can be expected to have low bone mineral density (BMD) at the time of fracture and to assist FPs in deciding whether to refer patients for BMD testing. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, EMBASE, and CINAHL were searched from the earliest available dates through September 2009. STUDY SELECTION English-language articles reporti...

INTRODUCTION Scaphoid fracture is the most common fracture among the bones of the wrist. Plain radiography has a sensitivity of 59 to 79 percent for the diagnosis of scaphoid fracture after injury. Casting is done to avoid complications in patients with suspected fractures with normal radiography. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has a sensitivity of 100% and a specificity of 99%. To avoid unne...

BACKGROUND Prehospital spinal immobilization criteria are useful in identifying those at risk for spinal fractures, while reducing the number of patients unnecessarily immobilized. The use of immobilization criteria, without regard to mechanism of injury, has been shown to accomplish this task. AIMS The study's purpose is to examine efficacy of a prehospital spinal clearance guideline and tri...

background ankle injuries are one of the most common presentations in emergency department. ottawa ankle rules (oars) have been used to predict the requirement of radiographs. objectives this study aimed to validate the oars protocol for predicting ankle and midfoot fractures in indian population. patients and methods a prospective study was conducted in a teaching hospital in north india, duri...

The majority of simple bone cysts (SBC's) is not symptomatic and remains undiagnosed or is discovered fortuitously. A number of simple bone cysts are only diagnosed after a pathological fracture which occurs as a presenting symptom. Fractures are managed either conservatively or surgically, based on criteria such as the age of the child and the type and localisation of the fracture. The risk fo...

s: The objective of this meta-analysis was to determine the incidence and identify risk factors associated with heterotopic ossification after elbow trauma. CNKI, Embase, Medline, and Cochrane central database were searched using a broad range of terms to identify original research, published all through August 2015 and identified potentially studies. Qualified studies had to meet the quality a...