Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 46-year-old male construction worker presented to the ER complaining of midtibia pain after being struck by a ...

Editor's Note: This article was originally published on February 20, 2001, and has been updated in order to provide the reader with additional references as well as to clarify several issues. The ...

A new study compares the effectiveness of two antisepsis aqueous solutions in reducing the risk of infection in patients requiring surgery for open fractures. The research team found that contrary to ...

Despite clinical observations that infected bones often lose their blood supply, no studies have attempted to quantify vascularity and perfusion in the setting of contaminated open fractures. We ...

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 ...

Studies evaluating surgical-site infection have had conflicting results with respect to the use of alcohol solutions containing iodine povacrylex or chlorhexidine gluconate as skin antisepsis before ...

We use our hands for almost every type of activity. But hands are complex, and when a part of them gets damaged, it can affect the whole hand. A metacarpal fracture is a break in one of the hand bones ...

An olecranon fracture is a common elbow fracture. It is a break in the ulna bone at the point of the elbow. An olecranon fracture may occur if people have a direct fall or blow to the elbow. People ...

As awful as Louisville guard Kevin Ware’s leg injury appeared during Sunday night’s Elite Eight game against Duke, Ware could be back on the court in six months to a year, an orthopedic surgeon says.