Review of methods to quantify lag screw placement in hip fracture fixation

Acta Orthopaedica Belgica

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 260-263

  Parmar, Vinay ^a   Kumar, Shyam ^a   Aster, Aster ^a   Harper, William H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Orthopaedics ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE SCREW; FEMUR FRACTURE; FEMUR HEAD; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; HIP FRACTURE; HIP RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LAG SCREW; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 21744461436     PISSN: 00016462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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