Treatment results of pathological fractures of the long bones: A retrospective analysis of 88 patients

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 519-524

  Sarahrudi, Kambiz ^a   Hora, Katherina ^a   Heinz, Thomas ^a   Millington, Steven ^a   Vécsei, Vilmos ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; BONE SCREW; CANCER SURVIVAL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MOBILIZATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; WALKING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARM BONES; BONE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, SPONTANEOUS; HUMANS; LEG BONES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33845419461     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-006-0205-9     Document Type: Article

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