The Retrograde Intramedullary Nail: Prospective Experience in Patients Older Than Sixty-Five Years

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 330-333

  Janzing, Heinrich M J ^a   Stockman, Bernard ^a   Van Damme, Guy ^a   Rommens, Pol ^b   Broos, Paul L O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distal femoral fracture; Elderly; Intramedullary nailing; Osteosynthesis; Retrograde nailing

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NAIL; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NAILS; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032088443     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005131-199806000-00006     Document Type: Article

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