Superficial femoral artery injury resulting from intertrochanteric hip fracture fixation by a locked intramedullary nail

Orthopaedics and Traumatology: Surgery and Research

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 380-382

  Grimaldi, M ^a   Courvoisier, A ^a   Tonetti, J ^a   Vouaillat, H ^a   Merloz, P ^a  

^a GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Hip fracture; Intertrochanteric fracture; Intramedullary nailing; Pseudoaneurysm; Vascular injury

Indexed keywords

ENOXAPARIN; STRYKER GAMMA 3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; FEMUR INTERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; X RAY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NAILS; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HEMATOMA; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 68249091376     PISSN: 18770568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otsr.2009.04.014     Document Type: Article

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