Nail or plate fixation of intertrochanteric hip fractures: Changing pattern of practice - A review of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery database

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 700-707

  Anglen, Jeffrey O ^a   Weinstein, James N ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLISTER; BONE PLATE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFORMITY; FEMUR INTERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; LIGAMENT INJURY; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NERVE INJURY; NERVE PARALYSIS; OPERATING ROOM PERSONNEL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SKIN ULCER; SURGEON; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEMORRHAGE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 41849129556     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.G.00517     Document Type: Article

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