Healio

A 90-year-old woman with an interprosthetic femur fracture

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 90-year-old woman presented to the ED after sustaining a ground-level fall onto her right knee earlier in the ...
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Functional and oncologic outcomes after excision of proximal femur primary bone tumors using a cost-effective indigenous prosthesis.

A phase Ib/III randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of tazemetostat plus doxorubicin as frontline therapy for patients with advanced epithelioid sarcoma. The outcome of vincristine, ...
Healio

Mortality is lower after acetabular vs proximal femoral fractures in older patients

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Compared with proximal femoral fractures, acetabular fractures were linked with lower 1-year mortality rates in ...
BMJ

“Bounce at the Bell”: a novel program of short bouts of exercise improves proximal femur bone mass in early pubertal children

Objectives: To examine the effects of a simple and inexpensive physical activity intervention on change in bone mass and structure in school aged children. Methods: Fifty one children (n = 23 boys and ...
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Dual energy X-ray absorptiometry - Bone mineral densitometry

Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA, or formerly DEXA) is a technique used to measure bone mineral density (BMD). The preferred regions for BMD measurement are lumbar spine, proximal femur and whole ...