They are more common in women. A femoral neck fracture can tear the blood vessels and cut off the blood supply to the femoral head. If the blood supply to the femoral head is lost, the bone tissue ...

Hemiarthroplasty involves the insertion of a metal prosthesis in the proximal femur ... risk of disruption of the critical blood supply to the femoral head, which is largely provided by the ...

The present study was undertaken to investigate changes in bone remodeling in the upper part of the femur during the first postoperative year after BHR. Our results show that, although three ...