Advancing Orthopedic Surgery: unique Case Reports driving progress

The field of orthopedic surgery is continually evolving, driven by innovative practices and novel insights. High-quality case reports play a significant role in this advancement by documenting unique patient cases that challenge conventional diagnosis and treatment approaches. They provide crucial insights into differential diagnosis and clinical decision-making, enhancing our understanding of unusual presentation and treatment outcomes.

This Research Topic aims to spotlight unique case reports that showcase unexpected or unusual diagnoses, treatment outcomes, or clinical courses in orthopedic surgery. These reports offer guidance on differential diagnosis, decision-making processes, and clinical management of atypical cases, contributing significantly to educational resources and expertise within the orthopedic community.

In this initiative, our scope is limited to Case Report submissions, wherein the reports must be both original and impactful with the potential to significantly advance the field of orthopedics. We welcome articles focused on, but not limited to, the following themes:

- Uncommon orthopedic diagnoses and their implications
- Innovative treatment methods and their outcomes
- Unanticipated complications and their management
- Case reports influencing future research directions
- Applied cases demonstrating enhanced clinical management strategies

This Research Topic will solely consider original Case Reports as submissions, emphasizing significant contributions to the field.

Article types and fees

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Clinical Trial
• Curriculum, Instruction, and Pedagogy
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• ... View all formats

Articles that are accepted for publication by our external editors following rigorous peer review incur a publishing fee charged to Authors, institutions, or funders.

Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Clinical Trial
• Curriculum, Instruction, and Pedagogy
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Review
• Study Protocol
• Systematic Review
• Technology and Code

Keywords: surgery, orthopedic surgery, Case Reports, Unique Clinical Cases, Diagnostic Assessment, Therapeutic Interventions

Important note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.