Complications after ankle fracture in elderly patients

Foot and Ankle International

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1249-1255

  Koval, Kenneth J ^a,b   Zhou, Weiping ^a   Sparks, Michael J ^a   Cantu, Robert V ^a   Hecht, Paul ^a   Lurie, Jon ^a  

^a Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center ^*

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ankle fracture; Complications; Elderly

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANKLE ARTHRODESIS; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FOOT AMPUTATION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ANKLE INJURIES; ARTHRODESIS; ARTHROPLASTY; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FORECASTING; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 37049030458     PISSN: 10711007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3113/FAI.2007.1249     Document Type: Article

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