A comminuted fracture is when a bone breaks into three or more pieces. These typically require surgery and take longer to heal than other fractures. A comminuted fracture happens when you break a bone ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Figure 1: Preoperative AP radiograph of the left distal femur showing a severely comminuted, periprosthetic ...

From the Bone and Joint Department of the Lahey Clinic, Boston. Haggart — Chief of Bone and Joint Service, Lahey Clinic, Boston. For record and address of author see "This Week's Issue," page 1179.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 40-year-old woman who was obese with osteogenesis imperfecta was involved in a high-speed motor vehicle ...

Tiger Woods escaped a Tuesday morning car accident with his life, but suffered "significant" leg injuries that required extensive surgery and a rod being inserted into his lower right leg. Woods ...

An official statement posted to Tiger Woods‘ Twitter account on Tuesday evening said the golfer suffered “comminuted open fractures affecting both the upper and lower portions of the tibia and fibula” ...

A tibial shaft fracture is an injury that occurs to the tibia, which is one of the long bones of the leg. The femur, humerus, and the fibula are the long bones of the lower limb. The femur is the bone ...