Complications with flexible nailing of femur fractures more than double with child obesity and weight >50 kg

Journal of Children's Orthopaedics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-58

  Weiss, Jennifer M ^a,b   Choi, Paul ^a,b   Ghatan, Christine ^a,b   Skaggs, David L ^a,b   Kay, Robert M ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Femur; Obesity; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 59349116466     PISSN: 18632521     EISSN: 18632548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11832-008-0149-2     Document Type: Article

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