The treatment of displaced clavicle fractures has historically been mostly nonoperative. However, several recent peer-reviewed clinical outcome studies have demonstrated a significantly higher ...

Posterior comminution is an important cause of insecure fixation. More than half of the insecurely fixed fractures end in nonunion. Clinical experience and laboratory data support the use of 3 screws ...

A 56-year-old man presented with a history of a left humeral nonunion following three previous surgical attempts to repair the fracture. Three years previously, he fell and sustained a closed, ...

FRACTURES of the clavicle can almost invariably be satisfactorily treated by conservative measures. The fragments unite easily and quickly, and the functional results are good, even though there may ...

1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, General Hospital of Jinan Military Command, 250031 Jinan, China. 2 Research on 2013 stage doctoral student of TCM Orthopaedics, Shandong University of Traditional ...

Erectile dysfunction (ED) resulting from direct damage of the neurovascular structures involved in tumescence following radical pelvic surgery and pelvic trauma is not uncommon. ED following the ...

ANY consideration of injury to the clavicle must take into account certain fundamentals. In the first place, absence of the clavicle is not incompatible with normal function of the shoulder girdle.

TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cohesys Inc., a Toronto-based medical device developer of resorbable fixation technologies, today announced that the first participants have undergone treatment with ...

Introduction: Femoral neck fracture (FNF) frequently occurs in the elderly. FNF is usually treated surgically, but patients often have comorbidities, which make the surgery complicated and increase ...