Systemic effects of bilateral tibial versus bilateral femoral shaft fractures: Is there a difference?

Acta Orthopaedica Belgica

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 134-141

  Raman, Raghu ^a   Sidhom, Sameh ^a   Pape, Hans C ^a,b   Giannoudis, Peter V ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COLLOID; CRYSTALLOID; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FEMUR SHAFT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA SHAFT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; KIDNEY FAILURE, ACUTE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2442545353     PISSN: 00016462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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