Full treatment spectrum for hip fractures: Operation and rehabilitation

Acta Orthopaedica

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-2

  Thorngren, Karl Göran ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; HEALTH CARE COST; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; SENESCENCE; SWEDEN;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; EARLY AMBULATION; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS;

EID: 0031050029     PISSN: 17453674     EISSN: 17453682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17453679709003965     Document Type: Editorial

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