Children of all ages can experience a broken femur. Learn the unique treatment factors and considerations and recovery times for femur fractures in children.

Flexible intramedullary nails with traction versus plaster cast for treating femoral shaft fractures in children: comparative retrospective study Hastes intramedulares flexíveis com tração versus ...

Bone fractures are a common but serious consequence of many personal injury accidents. From simple greenstick fractures in children to complex comminuted breaks in adults, each type presents ...

Children’s Hospital in Omaha also brought up a previous incident of a broken femur that did not properly heal. The Hastings Police Department investigated that incident when the child was just ...

Capt. Jason Haase of the Hastings Police Department told Local4 that the earlier case was closed after a doctor explained that a spiral fracture of the femur at that age would not have required much ...

Medical evaluation revealed a spiral fracture to the child's right femur and healing fractures to both clavicles and the left scapula, all deemed highly concerning for nonaccidental trauma, the ...

The affidavit has been released in the case of a Hastings day care worker who has been charged with child abuse resulting in serious injury of a child.

Most spiral fractures involve the long bones of the legs, such as the femur, tibia, and fibula. The injury can also involve the long bones of the arms, including the humerus, ulna, and radius.

MISSOURI CITY, Texas (KTRK) – A nonverbal child with autism in Texas was left lying on the floor for hours, crying in pain after a slip and fall at school. The 11-year-old boy named Kyle was ...

‘Development of guidelines for skeletal survey in young children with fractures’ is an American guideline by Wood et al published in the journal Pediatrics in June 2014.1 The aim of this study was to ...

Some researchers reported that children treated with ESIN for femoral shaft spiral fractures required further surgery for either unacceptable varus deformity, shortening, or insufficient stability (43 ...

Officers determined an infant was brought to the ER with a fractured right femur and a healed fracture to the left femur. Sheran Rhodes has now been arrested and charged, according to police.