Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) is a type of surgery used to repair broken bones that need to be put back together. During the surgery, some form of hardware is used to hold the bone in ...

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 ...

A 42-year-old woman was involved in a motorcycle crash and sustained a type II open, right distal-third tibia and fibula fractures (Figure 1). The patient was appropriately resuscitated, given IV ...

A 61-year-old otherwise healthy female patient with a diagnosis of osteoarthrosis was admitted to Tallinn Central Hospital, Tallinn, Estonia, in 1996 for elective left-knee arthroplasty. She had a ...

Washington Redskins quarterback Alex Smith, who suffered season-ending open and spiral fractures in his right leg on November 18, has been released from the hospital after having numerous surgeries ...