Open reduction internal fixation (orif) is a surgery to fix severely broken bones. It’s only used for serious fractures that cannot be treated with a cast or splint. It’s only used for serious ...

Background. A meta-analysis was performed to assess the association between healing rate, avascular necrosis (AVN) of femoral head and two reductions-open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) and closed ...

Open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) surgery repairs severe bone breakages. Surgeons perform ORIF surgery on severely broken bones when a cast or splint will not suffice. ORIF surgery is a major ...

Open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) is a type of surgery used to repair broken bones that need to be put back together. During the surgery, some form of hardware is used to hold the bone in ...

An intertrochanteric fracture is a specific type of hip fracture. “Intertrochanteric” means “between the trochanters,” which are bony protrusions on the femur (thighbone). They’re the points where the ...

1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, General Hospital of Jinan Military Command, 250031 Jinan, China. 2 Research on 2013 stage doctoral student of TCM Orthopaedics, Shandong University of Traditional ...