When Sens forward Mark Stone suffered a microfracture to his right wrist after a slash from Habs defenceman P.K. Subban on Wednesday night, a whole whack of so-called medical doctors gave their ...

Hafnium nanoparticles that home onto microfractures in bone make the tiny cracks visible in spectral or color computed tomography (CT) imaging. Researchers at the University of Illinois at ...

Microfractures were previously impossible to see using standard X-ray imaging. The findings associated with this advancement in color (spectral) CT (computed tomography) imaging are published in ...

“The purpose of this study was to compare the clinical and imaging of arthroscopic rotator cuff repair with and without microfractures of the greater tuberosity,” Giuseppe Milano, MD, said.

Often, a physician will decide to perform a subchondroplasty during arthroscopic joint surgery to treat subchondral bone defects (microfractures). A version of this article was first published ...