Longer femoral necks in the young: A predictor of further increases in hip fracture incidence?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 109, Issue 1024, 1996, Pages 234-235

  Reid, Ian R ^a   Chin, Kenneth ^a   Evans, Margaret C ^a   Cundy, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HIP FRACTURE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; RADIODENSITOMETRY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DENSITOMETRY, X-RAY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0030604592     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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