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2. Bone healing - Wikipedia

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   Bone healing, or fracture healing, is a proliferative physiological process in which the body facilitates the repair of a bone fracture. Generally, bone fracture treatment consists of a doctor reducing (pushing) displaced bones back into place via relocation with or without anaesthetic, stabilizing their position to aid union, and then waiting ...

3. Reduction (orthopedic surgery) - Wikipedia

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   "Closed reduction of a fractured bone".Medline Plus. 11 June 2008; Vinson DR, Hoehn CL (2013). "Sedation-assisted Orthopedic Reduction in Emergency Medicine".Western J Emerg Med.

4. Orthopedic surgery - Wikipedia

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   His advocacy of the use of Thomas splint for the initial treatment of femoral fractures reduced mortality of open fractures of the femur from 87% to less than 8% in the period from 1916 to 1918. [9] The use of intramedullary rods to treat fractures of the femur and tibia was pioneered by Gerhard Küntscher of Germany.

5. Opinion: We are fractured, and time to heal is now - AOL

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   The fracture is widening, and the time to heal is now. We need leaders willing to make the hard choices, not just the popular ones. Decisions that invest in the long-term well-being of our ...

6. List of orthopedic implants - Wikipedia

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   Austin-Moore prosthesis [broken anchor] for fracture of the neck of the femur [13] Baksi's prosthesis for elbow replacement [14] Charnley prosthesis for total hip replacement [15] Condylar blade plate for condylar fractures of the femur [16] Ender's nail for fixing intertrochanteric fracture [17] Grosse-Kempf nail for tibial or femoral shaft ...

7. List of eponymous fractures - Wikipedia

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   unstable spinal fracture-dislocation at the thoracolumbar junction: Thoracic Spine Fractures and Dislocations at eMedicine: Hume fracture: A.C. Hume: olecranon fracture with anterior dislocation of radial head: Ronald McRae, Maxx Esser. Practical Fracture Treatment 5th edition, page 187. Elsevier Health Sciences, 2008.

8. Ossification - Wikipedia

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   In fracture healing, endochondral osteogenesis is the most commonly occurring process, for example in fractures of long bones treated by plaster of Paris, whereas fractures treated by open reduction and internal fixation with metal plates, screws, pins, rods and nails may heal by intramembranous osteogenesis.

9. Skull fracture - Wikipedia

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   A skull fracture is a break in one or more of the eight bones that form the cranial portion of the skull, usually occurring as a result of blunt force trauma.If the force of the impact is excessive, the bone may fracture at or near the site of the impact and cause damage to the underlying structures within the skull such as the membranes, blood vessels, and brain.