BALTIMORE — A retrospective review of 5-year results following nonoperative treatment for isolated scapular body fractures has found that surgery for these injuries may be unwarranted.

A comminuted fracture occurs when your bone breaks into more than three pieces. Learn what cause this, how to treat it, and how long recovery takes.

There are a few different types of broken bones, or fractures. One kind is a comminuted fracture. This injury happens when your bone breaks into three or more pieces. Find out how doctors diagnose ...

If the bone is in many pieces, it is called a comminuted fracture. In a non-displaced fracture, the bone cracks either part or all of the way through, but does move and maintains its proper alignment.

A 40-year-old woman who was obese with osteogenesis imperfecta was involved in a high-speed motor vehicle collision and was brought to the ED after being intubated on the scene for Glasgow Coma ...

Woods’ fractures affected his right tibia and fibula, which are the two long bones directly under the knee. A comminuted open fracture means a bone has broken into more than two pieces and that ...

In Severely Comminuted Intercondylar-Supracondylar Distal Femur Fractures, Use the Device That Fits. MedGenMed 1(3), 1999 [formerly published in Medscape Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine eJournal 3 ...

Dr. Rabin is Assistant Professor, Chief, Section of Orthopaedic Trauma in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Ill. Rabin SI. In Severely Comminuted ...