Functional outcome after hip fracture in Japan

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 348, Issue , 1998, Pages 29-36

  Kitamura, Shinji ^a   Hasegawa, Yukiharu ^a   Suzuki, Sadao ^b   Sasaki, Ryuichiro ^b   Iwata, Hisashi ^a   Wingstrand, Hans ^c   Thorngren, Karl Göran ^c  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031900388     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199803000-00007     Document Type: Conference Paper

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