Skeletal injury patterns in older females

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 422, Issue , 2004, Pages 55-56

  Tornetta III, Paul ^a   Hirsch, Erwin F ^a   Howard, Robert ^b   McConnell, Timothy ^a   Ross, Eric ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABBREVIATED INJURY SCORE; ADULT; AGED; ARM FRACTURE; BONE INJURY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FOREARM FRACTURE; GENDER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INJURY; LEG FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WRIST FRACTURE;

EID: 2542468724     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000128294.21043.b8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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