Tibial plateau fractures are rare, making up around 1% of all fracture injuries. Tibial plateau fractures usually result from severe trauma. But these fractures can also happen when you have weakened ...

Fractures of the tibial plateau are severe injuries, accounting for 5–8% of all fractures of the lower leg. The most frequent reasons for these injuries are falls, traffic accidents and sports trauma.

While the healthcare system is under increasing financial burden, many healthcare institutions implement cost control strategies. Screening tibia shaft fracture patients for nonunion risks and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . This case involves a 64-year-old diabetic woman who had a left total knee placed in 2001 by an outside surgeon.

FRACTURES of the tibial spines, like all the less common fractures, receive so little attention in medical literature that even the specialists lose contact with the trends of treatment. It seems ...

Fibular fractions are among the quickest forms of leg break to heal, as the fibula are the smaller of the two lower leg bones that form the outer part of the shin and are not weight-bearing. These ...

My wife recently sustained a tibial plateau fracture while skiing. Can you tell us more about these injuries? Tibial plateau fractures are common ski injuries. On a given winter weekend of taking ...

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 ...

3 The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Correspondence to Dr Wouter H Mallee, Academic Medical Center of Amsterdam, Department of ...