Open reduction ankle surgery involves open surgery on fractured ankles. Doctors will realign ankle bones and may install internal fixations to keep them in place as they heal. Recovery from open ...

Significant soft-tissue disruption is frequently associated with high-grade talar neck fractures. [22] Up to 20% of cases present as open injuries with an anterolateral wound at the level of the ankle ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Intramedullary nailing and open reduction and internal fixation yielded similar outcomes for humeral shaft ...

Open tibial fractures remain the most prevalent open fracture, necessitating orthoplastic management with flap reconstruction. Early soft tissue coverage, ideally within 72 hours, is ...

Editor's Note: This article was originally published on February 20, 2001, and has been updated in order to provide the reader with additional references as well as to clarify several issues. The ...

A trimalleolar ankle fracture is when your ankle breaks in three separate places. Only 7% of all ankle breaks are trimalleolar ankle fractures. They are rare, and they are among the worst kinds of ...

If you have a broken bone, your doctor might refer to it as a bone fracture. There are different types of fractures. One kind is a comminuted fracture. This injury happens when your bone breaks into ...