A different treatment modality for trochanteric fractures of the femur in surgical high-risk patients: A clinical study of 44 patients with 21-month follow-up

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 538-543

  Özdemir, Hakan ^a   Dabak, T Kürşat ^a   Ürgüden, Mustafa ^a   Gür, Semih ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

External fixation; Fracture healing; Hip fracture; Modular axial fixator

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FEMUR TROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; VARUS DEFORMITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0348149193     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-003-0578-9     Document Type: Article

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