Encouraging results of treating femoral trochanteric fractures with specially designed double-screw nails

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 866-874

  Lin, Jinn ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Double screw nails; Femoral trochanteric fractures

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NAIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FEMUR TROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; JOINT MOBILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NAILS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37349033185     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3180342087     Document Type: Article

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