A new technique for removal of intraarticular bullet fragments from the femoral head

Bulletin: Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 107-110

  Williams, Mark S ^a   Hutcheson, Rickey L ^a   Miller, Andrew R ^a,b  

^a SINAI HOSPITAL OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign bodies; Gunshot; Hip joint; Surgery; Wounds

Indexed keywords

JOINTS (ANATOMY); ORTHOPEDICS;

FEMORAL HEAD; HIP JOINT; INTRAARTICULAR BULLET FRAGMENTS;

SURGERY;

ADULT; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; ARTHROTOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMUR HEAD; FLUOROSCOPY; FOREIGN BODY; GUNSHOT INJURY; HIP INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; FEMUR HEAD; FOREIGN BODIES; HIP INJURIES; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; ORTHOPEDICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0030872471     PISSN: 00185647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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