The treatment of impending and existing pathological femoral fractures using the long gamma nail

Injury

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 299-306

  Edwards, S A ^b   Pandit, H G ^a   Clarke, H J ^a  

^a QUEEN ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; LONG GAMMA NAIL; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NAIL; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; X RAY ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NAILS; BONE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0035032977     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(00)00218-7     Document Type: Article

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