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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 46-year-old male construction worker presented to the ER complaining of midtibia pain after being struck by a ...

Background Tibial shaft fracture is a common sports injury in young athletic population. Open fractures can result in significant morbidity. Our aim was to study the epidemiology, severity and soft ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tibia fracture can be common and is usually caused by an injury or repetitive strain on the bone. The recovery and healing time for tibia fracture differs and depends on the type and severity of the ...

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 ...