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.

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.

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 31-year-old right-hand dominant woman presented to the Yale New Haven Hospital’s Emergency Department as a polytrauma patient following a head-on motor vehicle collision. She was a restrained ...

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 ...

I love dogs. Recently I was strolling through Wagner Park when suddenly two dogs running full bore collided with me, toppling me to the ground resulting in a complex comminuted scapular fracture, etc.

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 ...

Tiger Woods Gets Rod, Screws, Pins Inserted In Right Leg After Multiple “Comminuted Open Fractures” From Accident. By Tom Tapp. ... A comminuted bone is broken into more than two pieces.

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 ...