The treatment of difficult proximal femoral fractures with the Russell-Taylor reconstruction nail

Injury

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 407-415

  Garnavos, Christos ^a,b   Peterman, Astrid ^a   Howard, Peter W ^a  

^a DERBYSHIRE ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCESS ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NAIL; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FEMUR NECK; FEMUR TROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; INTERLOCKING NAIL; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0032764686     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(99)00107-2     Document Type: Article

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