Conservative treatment of Garden stage I femoral neck fracture in elderly patients

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 24-28

  Tanaka, J ^a   Seki, N ^a   Tokimura, F ^a   Hayashi, Y ^a  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Tama Geriatric   (Japan)

Author keywords

Conservative treatment; Elderly patient; Femoral neck fracture

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BED REST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MOBILIZATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TRAINING; VALGUS DEFORMITY; WALKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASTS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; JAPAN; MALE; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036939291     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004020100318     Document Type: Article

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