Spontaneous subcapital femoral neck fracture after healed trochanteric fracture

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 342, Issue , 1997, Pages 156-163

  Buciuto, Robert ^a   Hammer, Richard ^a   Herder, Anders ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BONE PLATE; BONE REMODELING; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FEMUR TROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MALE; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

EID: 0030819441     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199709000-00023     Document Type: Article

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