1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, General Hospital of Jinan Military Command, 250031 Jinan, China. 2 Research on 2013 stage doctoral student of TCM Orthopaedics, Shandong University of ...

for femoral neck fracture. Methods. A literature-based search was conducted to identify all relevant studies published before September 10, 2013. The odd ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI ...

Such specificity is useful as fragility fractures vary widely in terms of treatment and prognosis, wherein hip fractures entail the largest morbidity and mortality burden," they wrote.

"Importantly, although the most commonly considered osteoporotic fractures (hip, vertebral, forearm, humerus, and pelvis) ...