Two cannulated hip screws for femoral neck fractures: Treatment of choice or asking for trouble?

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 297-303

  Krastman, Patrick ^a   van den Bent, Rob P ^a   Krijnen, Pieta ^a   Schipper, Inger B ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cannulated screw; Functional outcome; Garden; Hemi arthroplasty; Hip fracture; Minimal invasive fixation; Osteosynthesis; Pauwels; Reintervention

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DELIRIUM; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FOREIGN BODY; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, CLOSED; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745375022     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-006-0143-4     Document Type: Article

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