No advantages of Gamma nail over sliding hip screw in the management of peritrochanteric hip fractures: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Disability and Rehabilitation

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 493-497

  Jiang, Sheng Dan ^a   Jiang, Lei Sheng ^a   Zhao, Chang Qing ^a   Dai, Li Yang ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Internal fixation; Peritrochanteric fractures

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE NAIL; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; PERITROCHANTERIC HIP FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REOPERATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

BONE NAILS; BONE SCREWS; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41449119277     PISSN: 09638288     EISSN: 14645165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09638280701355538     Document Type: Article

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