Prevention of hip lag screw cut-out by cement augmentation: Description of a new technique and preliminary clinical results

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 34-40

  Szpalski, Marek ^a,d   Descamps, Pierre Yves ^a   Hayez, Jean Pierre ^a   Raad, Emmanuel ^a   Gunzburg, Robert ^b   Keller, Tony S ^c   Kosmopoulos, Victor ^c  

^a Centre Hospitalier Moliere Longchamp   (Belgium)

^b Euwfeestkliniek   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

bis GMA; Bone void filler; Cement augmentation; Sliding compression screw fixation; Trochanteric fractures

Indexed keywords

BISPHENOL A BIS(2 HYDROXYPROPYL) ETHER DIMETHACRYLATE; BONE CEMENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NAIL; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; FEMUR TROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FOREIGN BODY; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HIP RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; OPERATION DURATION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TORQUE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BISPHENOL A-GLYCIDYL METHACRYLATE; BONE CEMENTS; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS;

EID: 0347286912     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005131-200401000-00007     Document Type: Article

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