Surgical treatment of skeletal metastatic lesions of the proximal femur. Endoprosthesis or reconstruction nail?

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1653-1657

  Wedin, Rikard ^a   Bauer, H C F ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FEMUR HEAD PROSTHESIS; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RECURRENT DISLOCATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; FEMORAL NEOPLASMS; FEMUR HEAD; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 29444432260     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.87B12.16629     Document Type: Article

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