Undisplaced Intracapsular Hip Fractures: Results of Internal Fixation in 375 Patients

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 421, Issue , 2004, Pages 249-254

  Conn, Kevin S ^a   Parker, Martyn J ^a  

^a PETERBOROUGH DISTRICT HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BONE SCREW; FEMALE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HIP FRACTURE; HIP RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2342457052     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000119459.00792.c1     Document Type: Article

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