How comparable is so-called standard fracture fixation with an identical implant? A prospective experience with the antegrade femoral nail in South Africa and Europe

Injury

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 388-395

  Gross, Thomas ^a   Huettl, Tobias ^b   Audigé, Laurent ^b   Frey, Chris ^c   Monesi, Mauro ^d   Seibert, Franz Josef ^e   Messmer, Peter ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b AO FOUNDATION   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d SANTA MARIA DELLA MISERICORDIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Europe; Femur; Fracture fixation; Intercontinental comparison; Intramedullary nailing; Observational study; Outcome; South Africa; Trauma centre

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FEMUR SHAFT FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE TREATMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HARRIS HIP SCORE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANGE OF MOTION; REOPERATION; SHORT FORM 36; SOUTH AFRICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ADOLESCENT; BONE NAIL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURES, OPEN; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NAILS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EUROPE; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, OPEN; HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REOPERATION; SOUTH AFRICA; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949263056     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.10.021     Document Type: Article

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