Bilateral femoral neck fractures with negative bone scans

Orthopedics

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 974-976

  Bal, B Sonny ^a,b   Sandow, Theodore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Jackson County Orthopedics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STRESS FRACTURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TECHNETIUM;

EID: 0029908077     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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