Pathological fractures of the proximal femur with impending shaft fractures treated by THR and cemented intramedullary nailing: A report of nine cases

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 400-403

  Voggenreiter, Gregor ^a   Assenmacher, Stefan ^a   Klaes, Wilhelm ^a   Schmit Neuerburg, Klaus Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE CEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MALE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; FEMUR TUMOR; FOLLOW UP; HIP PROSTHESIS; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FEMORAL NEOPLASMS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030136694     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620x.78b3.0780400     Document Type: Article

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