Spontaneous subcapital femoral neck fracture complicating a healed intertrochanteric fracture

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 5-6, 1999, Pages 271-275

  Kanai, H ^a   Igarashi, M ^a   Yamamoto, S ^a   Oda, H ^b  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FEMUR INTERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0032859823     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004020050408     Document Type: Article

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