Preoperative traction for hip fracture. A randomized comparison between skin and skeletal traction in 78 patients

Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 277-279

  Resch, Sylvia ^a,b   Thorngren, Karl Göran ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b BLEKINGE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEMUR TROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; HIP FRACTURE; HIP RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; SKELETON TRACTION; TIME; TRACTION THERAPY;

EID: 0031871018     PISSN: 00016470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/17453679809000929     Document Type: Article

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