A comminuted fracture occurs when your bone breaks into more than three pieces. Learn what cause this, how to treat it, and how long recovery takes.

There are a few different types of broken bones, or fractures. One kind is a comminuted fracture. This injury happens when your bone breaks into three or more pieces. Find out how doctors diagnose ...

A comminuted fracture is when the bone breaks into several pieces A transverse fracture is when the fracture line is perpendicular to the shaft (long part) of the bone.

The indications for central tension plate fixation include displaced unstable oblique and comminuted olecranon fractures. This technique is also suitable for transverse olecranon fractures in high ...

A 40-year-old woman who was obese with osteogenesis imperfecta was involved in a high-speed motor vehicle collision and was brought to the ED after being intubated on the scene for Glasgow Coma ...

Tiger Woods suffered comminuted open fractures in his lower right leg. We explain what that injury is and what's required to care for it.

A 54-year-old man with a past medical history of type 1 diabetes mellitus, heart failure and renal transplant presented to the ED after having a mechanical fall resulting in pain, deformity to the ...

What are comminuted open fractures? Woods’ fractures affected his right tibia and fibula, which are the two long bones directly under the knee.

This report from a level 1 trauma center located near the site of protests describes several serious injuries resulting from use of beanbag munitions by police for crowd control.

Severely comminuted distal femur fractures require anatomic internal fixation for best results, but obtaining rigid fixation of the multiple fragments may be challenging or impossible using ...

Tiger Woods suffered comminuted open fractures in his lower right leg. We explain what that injury is and what's required to care for it.