The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American). 2008;90:2804-2822.
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What's New in Orthopaedic Trauma

Peter A. Cole, MD1, Theodore Miclau, III, MD2, Thuan V. Ly, MD1, Julie A. Switzer, MD1, Mengnai Li, MD1, Robert A. Morgan, MD1 and Mohit Bhandari, MD, MSc, FRCSC3

1 Regions Hospital, University of Minnesota, 640 Jackson Street, St. Paul, MN 55101. E-mail address for P.A. Cole: peter.a.cole@healthpartners.com
2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco General Hospital, 1001 Potrero Avenue, Room 3A36, San Francisco, CA 94110
3 Hamilton General Hospital, 237 Barton Street East, 6 North Trauma, Hamilton, ON L8L 2X2, Canada

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   Introduction
 
Changes this year to the Specialty Update on Trauma reflect a clinical trend emerging in the field of orthopaedic traumatology toward greater specialization in certain areas. Examples of crystallizing expertise around certain clinical domains include geriatric and pediatric fracture management. Of course, such has already occurred with regard to anatomic trauma expertise in areas such as the upper extremity, the foot and ankle, the pelvis, and the spine. Accordingly, new sections have been added this year on fragility fractures and fracture treatment in the elderly.

This update will begin with an introduction covering the methodology for this year's review, followed by a section on general non-fracture-specific topics and the review of seven key basic science articles. Then, reviews are presented of fracture highlight articles (published from June 2007 to May 2008), categorized anatomically.

We conducted both database and hand searches of all clinical studies with an orthopaedic trauma focus that . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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