Proximal femoral fracture: Range of hip motion as a predictor of fracture type

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 376, Issue , 2000, Pages 222-228

  Binns, Malcolm ^a   Shardlow, David ^a   Soames, Roger ^b  

^a Pontefract General Infirmary   (United Kingdom)

^b Pontefract Infirmary ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMUR FRACTURE; HIP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JOINT MOBILITY; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033938667     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-200007000-00030     Document Type: Article

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