Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease is one of the most perplexing conditions in paediatric orthopaedics. It strikes children by ...

In severe osteoarthritis there is extensive deformation of the femoral head, usually combined with varus and torsion of the femoral neck. 16 Unless these are corrected, the faulty mechanical use of ...

Dinosaurs—and birds—wouldn't have been able to stand on their own two feet without some radical changes to their upper thigh bones. Now, a new study by Yale paleontologists charts the evolutionary ...

"Okay, make it subtype A."When my senior doctor said that in the operating room, I froze.Subtype A. I had absolutely no idea ...

A 25-year-old woman presented to the hospital as a level 2 trauma activation as the unrestrained driver in a motor vehicle accident. In the trauma bay, she complained of bilateral lower extremity pain ...

Avascular Necrosis (AVN) of the femoral head, also known as osteonecrosis, is a condition where the blood supply to the hip joint is injured. When the small blood vessels in the femoral head are ...

The patient is a 74-year-old man with a past medical history of hypertension who initially presented to an urgent care facility with left knee pain after falling directly onto his knee. At the urgent ...

The treatment of hormone-induced early-stage avascular necrosis of the femoral head (ANFH) with transplantation of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF)-transgenic bone marrow stromal stem cells (BMSCs) was ...

We reviewed retrospectively medical records and magnetic resonance imaging scans of 80 patients with osteonecrosis of the capital femoral epiphysis. Logistic regression was used to examine ...