The initial laboratory test results are shown in Table 1. Radiologic studies are shown in Figures 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d, 5, and 6. The elevated serum alkaline phosphatase level indicates increased ...

A 42-year-old woman was involved in a motorcycle crash and sustained a type II open, right distal-third tibia and fibula fractures (Figure 1). The patient was appropriately resuscitated, given IV ...

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 ...

An expert panel has issued new skeletal survey (SS) guidelines for clinicians trying to decide whether fractures in children younger than 2 years may have resulted from abuse or accidents. The ...

THE human skeleton is what holds us up, protects our organs, and houses our bone marrow where blood cells are made. In short, the bones in our body give us our very structure – but just how many bones ...