HSS Presents New Findings Impacting Pediatric Orthopedic Care Recommendations at AAOS Annual Meeting

At this year's American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) annual meeting, investigators at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) presented several significant studies, two of which could lead to ...
Nature

Elderly patients with distal radial fractures should be assessed for osteoporosis

A low-energy distal radius fracture may indicate that an individual will eventually develop potentially devastating osteoporotic fractures. Øyen et al. now report that one-third of men and one-half of ...
casereports.bmj

Catastrophic osteomyelitis following percutaneous wire fixation of a distal radial fracture: a cautionary tale of poor patient selection followed by surgical mishap

We present a case of distal radius fracture. Several sequential unfortunate events resulted in a poor outcome. The patient was poorly selected because the degree of early dementia was not fully ...
gut.bmj

O29 Management of malignant distal biliary obstruction in the UK

1 Department of Gastroenterology, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Leeds, UK 2 Department of Gastroenterology, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle, UK 3 Department of ...
SciELO

Stress fractures

Stress fractures (SF) represent 10%-20% of all injuries in sport medicine. An SF occurs when abnormal and repetitive loading is applied on normal bone: The body cannot adapt quickly enough, leading to ...