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A femoral fracture is a bone fracture that involves the femur. They are typically sustained in high-impact trauma, such as car crashes , due to the large amount of force needed to break the bone. Fractures of the diaphysis , or middle of the femur, are managed differently from those at the head, neck, and trochanter ; those are conventionally ...
A hip fracture is a break that occurs in the upper part of the femur (thigh bone), at the femoral neck or (rarely) the femoral head. [2] Symptoms may include pain around the hip, particularly with movement, and shortening of the leg. [2] Usually the person cannot walk. [3] A hip fracture is usually a femoral neck fracture.
Moore's fracture: Edward Mott Moore: distal radius fracture with ulnar dislocation and entrapment of styloid process under annular ligament: Moore's fracture at TheFreeDictionary.com: Pipkin fracture-dislocation: G. Pipkin: posterior dislocation of hip with avulsion fracture of fragment of femoral head by the ligamentum teres
Colles' fracture – a distal fracture of the radius with dorsal (posterior) displacement of the wrist and hand; Smith's fracture – a distal fracture of the radius with volar (ventral) displacement of the wrist and hand; Barton's fracture – an intra-articular fracture of the distal radius with dislocation of the radiocarpal joint; Hand fracture
A Hoffa fracture is an intra-articular supracondylar distal femoral fracture, characterized by a fracture in the coronal plane. [1] It is named for Albert Hoffa. [1]
The osteochondral fracture occurs on the weight-bearing portion of the lateral condyle. Typically, the condyle will fracture (and the patella may dislocate) as a result of severe impaction from activities such as downhill skiing and parachuting. [1] Open reduction and internal fixation surgery is typically used to repair an osteochondral fracture.
Traction splints are most commonly used for fractures of the femur (or upper leg bone). [2] For these fractures they may reduce pain and decrease the amount of bleeding which occurs into the soft tissues of the leg. [2] Some state that they are appropriate for middle tibia fractures which are displaced or bent. [3]
The Vancouver classification is a grading system used in orthopaedics to determine management of post-operative periprosthetic femoral fractures following a hip arthroplasty. It is named for the city Vancouver, home to the University of British Columbia where the authors of the 1995 paper worked.