The effect of screw insertion site and unused drill holes on stability and mode of failure after fixation of basicervical femoral neck fracture

Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 11-16

  Stafford, Paul ^a   Goulet, Ronald ^b   Norris, Brent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Femoral neck fractures; Hip fractures; Screw holes; Subtrochanteric fractures

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIALS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BONE; CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS; FRACTURE FIXATION; ORTHOPEDICS;

BASICERVICAL FEMORAL NECK FRACTURE; HIP FRACTURE; LATERAL CORTEX; SCREW HOLES; SUBTROCHANTERIC FRACTURES;

BIOMECHANICS;

BIOMECHANICS; BONE SCREW; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE;

EID: 0033822755     PISSN: 0278940X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/CritRevBiomedEng.v28.i12.40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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