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Published results showed intramedullary nailing and open reduction and internal fixation yielded similar nonunion and reoperation rates for patients with humeral shaft fractures.

Published results showed women are underrepresented among orthopedic fellowship program directors, especially in orthopedic sports medicine, shoulder and elbow, and adult reconstruction subspecialties.

The probability of infection increases by 0.17% for every 6-hour delay in debridement for patients who undergo intramedullary nailing of an open femoral or tibial fracture, according to published results.

According to results published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, conventional ventilation and laminar airflow were effective for keeping methylmethacrylate fumes below harmful levels during closed bone cement mixing under vacuum.

Compared with small to medium stems, large cementless hip stems had a higher rate of revision due to periprosthetic fractures, according to results published in the Journal of Arthroplasty.

Published results showed the validated fracture risk assessment tool, known as FRAX, may underestimate the risk of some vertebral fractures and subsequent clinical fractures, such as major osteoporotic fractures and hip fractures.

Muscle mass as measured through high-resolution peripheral quantitative CT may not interact with bone measures to affect the risk for fractures among older men, though more studies are needed, according to study data.

According to published results, adverse events are common after diaphyseal forearm fracture surgery, thus these procedures may require special consideration and personnel.

The introduction of TNF inhibitors in 2003 has failed to stop fracture rates in patients with ankylosing spondylitis from more than doubling from 2000 to 2020, according to data published in Arthritis Care & Research.