Supracondylar periprosthetic femur fractures following total knee arthroplasty

Current Opinion in Orthopaedics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-33

  Kharrazi, F Daniel ^a   Chandler, Robert W ^a   Spitzer, Andrew I ^a  

^a KERLAN JOBE ORTHOPAEDIC CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; BRACE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032940672     PISSN: 10419918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001433-199902000-00005     Document Type: Article

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