Sigmoid perforation after medial migration of lag screw in gamma nailing

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 118-122

  Tauber, Mark ^a   Resch, Herbert ^a  

^a University Hospital Salzburg   (Austria)

Author keywords

Gamma nail; Lag screw; Retroperitoneal abscess; Sigmoid perforation; Trochanteric fracture

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; TAZOBACTAM;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BONE SCREW; CALLUS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON PERFORATION; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR TROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FOREIGN BODY; HIP RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; OSTEITIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PEROPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL ABSCESS; SEPSIS; SIGMOID; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT BEARING; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; BONE NAILS; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LAPAROTOMY; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIGMOID DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644508687     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-005-0085-2     Document Type: Article

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