The hazard of retrograde nailing in pathological fractures: Three cases involving primary musculoskeletal malignancy

Injury

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 533-538

  Spence, G M ^a,d   Dunning, M T ^b   Cannon, S R ^c   Briggs, T W R ^c  

^a BEDFORD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MALE; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOSARCOMA; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; BONE NEOPLASMS; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM SEEDING; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0036291963     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(02)00035-9     Document Type: Article

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