Medically reviewed by Stuart Hershman, MD Broken ankles may involve one or more of the three bones of the ankle joint—the ...

External fixators are appropriate in cases of open, comminuted, unstable fractures. Other appropriate settings for external fixation include temporal management of fractures and length ...

Fractures that are not stable or have multiple pieces that cannot be held together with a rod are typically treated surgically with plates and screws. Very unstable fractures might need external ...

If not, treatment algorithms will be arbitrary, since the fractures are placed in different categories by different doctors. If an unstable fracture is classified in a benign category with little ...

This is an unstable mandible fracture, which will require fixation with plates and screws where they'll make an incision... peel back that lip, and then realign the bones, and fix it with plates ...

The Spurs were hit with more bad news on Tuesday evening when team officials confirmed that forward Jeremy Sochan suffered a ...

Stable pertrochanteric fractures may be treated with a dynamic hip screw. Unstable pertrochanteric or subtrochanteric fractures are treated with a Gamma nail at the authors' institution. Implantation ...