• Pediatric femoral fractures are injuries that may involve the proximal femur, the femoral shaft, or the distal femur. (medscape.com)
  • The Hip Structural Analysis (HSA) program measures not only the BMD of the hip bone but also structural geometry of cross-sections traversing the proximal femur at specific locations. (cdc.gov)
  • The program analyzes the proximal femur at three locations as shown in Figure 1. (cdc.gov)
  • Cephalomedullary nailing system for the treatment of intertrochanteric fractures as well as a wide range of proximal femur fractures and associated femoral shaft fractures. (stryker.com)
  • Blood supply to the proximal femur has been reserved with no signs of avascular necrosis. (aofoundation.org)
  • He wore a belt with a rectangular iron buckle with a shaft, found flattened on his right femur. (eurekalert.org)
  • A 23 month old girl born by non consanguineous marriage presented with fracture of right femur following fall from a chair. (pediatriconcall.com)
  • Radiograph of limbs revealed transverse fracture of shaft of right femur. (pediatriconcall.com)
  • T1-weighted axial MR scan showing low signal within the shaft of right femur in a patient with fibrous dysplasia. (medscape.com)
  • X-ray showed that the right femur was 2 cm longer than the left femur. (who.int)
  • The traction splint for a femur shaft fracture is an orthopaedic device made of a metallic frame that extends from the proximal thigh to an area distal to the heel ( Figure 1 ). (scielo.org.za)
  • The thigh bone (femur) is a long bone. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The femur is the thigh bone, the longest bone in the body. (innerbody.com)
  • This research allows us to determine whether an individual was overweight based solely on the characteristics of a skeleton's femur, or thigh bone," says Dr. Ann Ross, an associate professor of anthropology at NC State and co-author of a paper describing the research. (ncsu.edu)
  • The lower limb includes the femur (thigh), tibia (shinbone) and fibula (leg), and bones of the foot: 7 tarsals (ankle), 5 metatarsals (foot) and 14 phalanges (toes). (exploringnature.org)
  • The femur (thigh bone) is fractured at the neck between the head and shaft of the bone. (mediastorehouse.com)
  • A hip fracture is a break in the upper quarter of the femur (the thigh bone). (baptisthealth.com)
  • The femur, or thigh bone, consists of the head (the ball) and the neck (the part of the femur that joins the long shaft of the bone to the head). (dpca.org)
  • The femur is a large leg bone that connects the knee to the thigh, and its design and structure are very important for the purposes of posture and locomotion. (icr.org)
  • It has already eaten through the central shaft of my bone and corroded large portions of the thigh muscle around it. (brucefeiler.com)
  • The femur is the thigh bone in vertebrate animals. (a-z-animals.com)
  • When the shaft is broken, the thigh is swollen, and the leg looks distorted and often shorter. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Patient also had ipsilateral tibia shaft fracture. (scirp.org)
  • The tibia shaft fracture was treated with closed intra medullary interlocking nail immediately. (scirp.org)
  • The other end of the femur (distal) connects to the shinbone (tibia) and kneecap (patella). (a-z-animals.com)
  • Leg fractures occur in one or more of the three long bones in the legs: the thighbone (femur), the shinbone (tibia), and the smaller bone in the lower leg (fibula). (msdmanuals.com)
  • Background: Floating knee is the term applied to the flail knee joint segment resulting from a fracture of the shaft or adjacent metaphysis of the ipsilateral femur and tibia. (bvsalud.org)
  • A case of compound C3 distal femur fracture with 12 cm bone defect. (scirp.org)
  • After thorough debridement, the Harms cage was used to reconstruct the medial column and the fracture was fixed with the locking distal femur plate laterally. (scirp.org)
  • AO classification of distal femur fractures. (scirp.org)
  • A 21 year old male presented to us after a vehicular accident with a type C3 compound right distal femur fracture with bone defect of about 12 cm. (scirp.org)
  • Thorough debridement of the distal femur wound was done and surgery was carried out once the wound was clean. (scirp.org)
  • For the distal femur fracture the lateral approach was used and the fracture site was exposed. (scirp.org)
  • The cage was inserted through the fracture site and punched all the way medially so that it filled up the medium column defect .Then the lateral column was anatomically reduced with the condyles and distal femur locking plate was applied ( Figure 3 ). (scirp.org)
  • Image shows homogeneous loss of the normal trabecular pattern in the shaft of the humerus, with a ground-glass appearance caused by fibrous dysplasia. (medscape.com)
  • He later sustained fractures of the shafts of the left humerus and left femur with consequent skeletal deformities, leading to his being bed-bound. (medscape.com)
  • Exclusion criteria were: ipsilateral fracture of the lower limb, neck and supracondylar femur fractures, pathological, periprosthetic and incomplete fractures. (scielo.org.za)
  • Use of a traction splint in the presence of other ipsilateral fractures in the leg will cause the weaker fracture site to pull apart and not the targeted femur fracture. (scielo.org.za)
  • Predictive radiographic markers for concomitant ipsilateral ankle injuries in tibial shaft fractures. (wustl.edu)
  • PURPOSE: To evaluate the clinical characteristics of intertrochanteric or subtrochanteric fractures associated with ipsilateral femoral shaft fractures and assess the surgical outcomes of a novel, closed intramedullary nailing surgical approach. (koreamed.org)
  • Femoral shaft fractures are high energy injuries to the femur that are associated with life-threatening injuries (pulmonary, cerebral) and ipsilateral femoral neck fractures. (orthobullets.com)
  • Diagnosis is made radiographically with radiographs of the femur as well as the hip to rule out ipsilateral femoral neck fractures. (orthobullets.com)
  • The ALFN is indicated to stabilize fractures of the femoral shaft, subtrochanteric, ipsilateral neck/shaft and impending pathological fractures, as well as nonunions and malunions of the femur (Fig 1). (aofoundation.org)
  • 1-3 Only later in 1875 was it used for conservative treatment of isolated femur fractures. (scielo.org.za)
  • A lower-force incident, such as a fall from standing, may cause a femoral shaft fracture in an older person who has weaker bones. (peninsulaboneandjoint.com)
  • The researchers evaluated the femur bones of 121 white men for the study. (ncsu.edu)
  • The long bones have a long shaft and two bigger ends. (exploringnature.org)
  • On the outside of each side is a deep socket, called the acetabulum, where the head the leg bones (the femur) sits. (exploringnature.org)
  • The separation between the bones is called subluxation, and at its most severe it can become a total dislocation (the head of the femur leaves the acetabulum). (dpca.org)
  • The most frequently affected sites of the polyostotic form are the skull, the mandible, the pelvic bones, and the femur. (medscape.com)
  • Regardless, something happened between then and now that made my left femur different from the tens of thousands of other bones children break every year in the United States. (brucefeiler.com)
  • Because of these loads, for instance, femur bones in legs becomes thicker and bigger than other bone because it has to carry out about 63 percent of the body weight. (nextnature.net)
  • The source for these minerals came from medullary bone, a spongy looking type of bone lining the inside of the shafts of long bones like the femur. (smithsonianmag.com)
  • We may not give the femur bones much thought, but they are the reason we can move, stand, and hold weight. (a-z-animals.com)
  • Femur bones of giant rabbit Nuralagus rex, and European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus). (a-z-animals.com)
  • Femur bones come in many different sizes depending on the species. (a-z-animals.com)
  • Femur bones are found in tetrapod vertebrates or those with a skeletal system and four limbs. (a-z-animals.com)
  • Bones vary widely in size, ranging from the tiny inner ear bones that are responsible for transmitting mechanical sound waves to the sensory organs to the large (nearly 2 ft long) femur bone that is strong enough to withstand 30 times one's body weight. (medscape.com)
  • Long bones are formed from a cartilage model precursor by endochondral ossification (see the image below) and can range in size from a phalanx to a femur. (medscape.com)
  • This ball and socket joint consists of two basic parts - the acetabulum and the femur. (dpca.org)
  • The acetabulum forms the socket part of the joint and it is into this socket that the head of the femur rests. (dpca.org)
  • [ 2 - 4 ] The management of shaft femur fractures is age dependent. (ijrsms.com)
  • Narrow Neck (NN) across the narrowest diameter of the femoral neck, 2) Intertrochanteric (IT) along the bisector of the neck-shaft angle and 3) the Shaft (S) , 2 cm distal to the midpoint of the lesser trochanter. (cdc.gov)
  • Gamma3 Long Nail is intended for fixation of stable and unstable femoral fractures occurring from the base of the femoral neck extending distally to a point approximately 10cm proximal to the intracondylar notch including fractures of the basilar neck, intertrochanteric fractures, peritrochanteric fractures, subtrochanteric fractures and femoral shaft fractures. (stryker.com)
  • In July and August of 2004, BMD was measured at a variety of skeletal sites [lumbar spine (L1-4), femoral neck, trochanter, Ward's triangle, shaft and proximal total hip] using the GE/Bravo Lunar DPX dual-energy X-ray absorptiometer in a South Korean population-based sample of 375 pre-menopausal and 355 post-menopausal rural women aged 19-80 years. (who.int)
  • Based on the common principles of the AO classification, type A fractures include extra-articular fractures and type B fractures are partial articular fractures, meaning parts of the articular surface remains in contact with the diaphysis of the femur Type C fractures include complete articular fractures with both condyles being detached from the diaphysis. (scirp.org)
  • To measure the compliance of our prehospital service and trauma unit with international guidelines relating to the early application of the Thomas splint in patients with a femur shaft fracture on clinical examination. (scielo.org.za)
  • Only 37.5% of patients presenting to our trauma unit with a femur shaft fracture have a Thomas splint applied before radiological examinations are performed. (scielo.org.za)
  • Increasing evidence suggests that side effects of the osteoporosis drug Prolia may increase the risk of hip fractures, femur fractures and other bone fractures, which typically occur following minimal or low trauma events. (aboutlawsuits.com)
  • The adolescent age group with skeletal immaturity deserves special attention from the surgeons because of grave complications like avascular necrosis of the femur head and angular deformities. (ijrsms.com)
  • Intertrochanteric regions across the femur at the neck (NN region), intertrochanteric (IT) and Bone shaft. (cdc.gov)
  • Intertrochanteric fractures - those that occur below the neck of the femur and above the shaft of the femur can be managed with either a compression hip screw or an intramedullary nail (a metal rod forced into the intramedullary cavity of the bone). (baptisthealth.com)
  • BACKGROUND: This study was conducted to compare the radiological and clinical outcomes of internal fixation using a Polarus humeral nail for treatment of a humeral shaft fracture according to fracture. (koreamed.org)
  • 9. Gibbon WW, Pooley J. Pathological fracture of the femoral shaft in a case of Servelle‑Martorell syndrome (phleboeclatic osteohypoplastic angiodysplasia with associated arterio‑venous malformation). (ac.ir)
  • The force applied is not sufficient to reduce the fracture but enough to maintain an alignment and decrease the complications associated with femur shaft fracture. (scielo.org.za)
  • The rigid intramedullary interlocking nail is a valuable option for the fixation of femoral shaft fractures in an adolescent age group with a good union rate and minimal complications. (ijrsms.com)
  • He continued, "In 2008, the Food and Drug Administration raised the issue with Merck" which, more than a year later, "added information on the package insert" warning of the possibility of "low energy femoral shaft and subtrochanteric fractures. (pissd.com)
  • The largest bone in the body, the femur, is a long bone. (exploringnature.org)
  • The femur is the largest bone in the body and makes up about one fourth of a person's height. (exploringnature.org)
  • Fractures may occur in the long middle part (shaft) of the thighbone, which is the largest bone in the body. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Magnetic resonance imaging showed extensive osteomyelitis of the left femoral shaft and metaphysis, including ring enhancement and sinus formation ( Figure 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • This cylinder is the medullary cavity, and is the central cavity of bone shafts. (innerbody.com)
  • And the head of the femur connects to the cotyloid cavity in the pelvic bone that forms the hip joint. (a-z-animals.com)
  • The aim of this study is to report the outcome of an adolescent femur shaft fracture treated with a rigid intramedullary interlocking nail in North Indian patients. (ijrsms.com)
  • In the treatment of these injuries, it is important to keep in mind that pediatric femur fractures differ from adult femur fractures in several key respects (see below), and these differences affect management. (medscape.com)
  • The femoral shaft fractures constitute 1.6% of the pediatric fractures. (ijrsms.com)
  • Conventional antegrade nailing of the femur in this age group is a concern because of the possibility of avascular necrosis of the femoral head. (aofoundation.org)
  • Hasil : Penerapan teori Virginia Henderson efektif diterapkan pada pasien dengan neglected fracture of left shaft femur. (ui.ac.id)
  • Kesimpulan : teori Virginia Henderson dapat digunakan pada asuhan keperawatan pasien dengan neglected fracture left shaft femur untuk meningkatkan kemandirian akibat perubahan fisik dan psikologis. (ui.ac.id)
  • Waluyo, A 2019, ' APLIKASI TEORI VIRGINIA HENDERSON PADA PASIEN NEGLECTED FRACTURE OF LEFT SHAFT FEMUR ', Dunia Keperawatan : Jurnal Keperawatan dan Kesehatan . (ui.ac.id)
  • A lytic area was observed on a radiograph of his left femur. (cdc.gov)
  • I have learned that I have a seven-inch osteogenic sarcoma in my left femur. (brucefeiler.com)
  • He was suggesting that I had been born with a genetic predisposition that weakened my left femur. (brucefeiler.com)
  • The NN region and shaft regions are modeled as a circular annuli with 60/40 proportion of cortical/trabecular bone 100% cortical bone in the NN and shaft regions respectively. (cdc.gov)
  • The IT region is modeled as an elliptical annulus that assumes 70/30 proportion of cortical/trabecular bone, with the anteroposterior diameter assumed to be the width of the shaft profile. (cdc.gov)
  • Traction splints should only be applied when the fracture is isolated to the femur. (scielo.org.za)
  • The area of the femur below the ball (femoral head). (orthoinfo.org)
  • Blood supply to the head of the femur may be damaged at the time of an intracapsular hip fracture, leading to inadequate flow to the cartilage and underlying supporting bone after repair. (baptisthealth.com)
  • A second screw may be placed through the nail and up into the neck and head of the femur to increase stability. (baptisthealth.com)
  • A long metal rod together with a large secondary (lag) screw or with screws that capture the neck and head of the femur. (baptisthealth.com)
  • As the bone of the acetabular rim is ground away, it becomes shallower and it is now more difficult to keep the head of the femur properly seated. (dpca.org)
  • The ALFN is cannulated and has 8.2 mm shaft diameter and a proximal diameter of 11 mm. (aofoundation.org)
  • PURPOSE: This study examined the outcomes of exchange nailing for the hypertrophic nonunion of femoral shaft fractures treated with intramedullary nailing as well as the factors affecting the treatment outcomes. (koreamed.org)