Bone Health

A 10 Year Longitudinal Study AAOS Meeting Abstract 2005

OTA paper 2004: Improvement by Using a Standard Protocol in Cases of Femoral Shaft Fractures

Reports from Medscape Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine 1999

Locking-Screw Compression Hip Screw for use with Retrograde Intramedullary Nailing in the Treatment of Ipsilateral Femoral Neck and Shaft Fractures Mark W. Hanna, MD 2003 Annual Meeting Georgia Orthopaedic Society

Acetabular Fractures: Diagnosis, Treatment, Indications, Outcome

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From Journal RCSE

The authors evaluated two hypothetical interventions to prevent hip fracture in the overall female population and in a high-risk female population. For one intervention the authors assumed treatment costs approximating treatment with bisphosphonates, and for the other intervention the authors assumed treatment costs approximating those of hormone replacement therapy (HRT).

Abstract from Archives Internal Medicine April 2005

Update in eMJA of 1996 study "How best to fix broken hips" (qv)

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Femoral neck fractures in the young adult are a different type of fracture than those seen in the elderly. These younger patients have normal bone density. A simple fall is not going to break the femoral neck. These fractures require high energy type injury mechanisms, and greater than 50% of the patients will have associated injuries as a reflection of the severity of their injury. The mechanisms is usually an axial load to the lower extremity with an abducted hip. The fracture pattern in these patients tends to be more vertical than in the elderly patient.

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics