Are extreme distal periprosthetic supracondylar fractures of the femur too distal to fix using a lateral locked plate?

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 527-534

  Streubel, P N ^a   Gardner, M J ^a   Morshed, S ^b   Collinge, C A ^a   Gallagher, B ^a   Ricci, W M ^a  

^a BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FEMUR; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTERLOCKING NAIL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; RANGE OF MOTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPRACONDYLAR FEMORAL FRACTURE; SUPRACONDYLAR PERIPROSTHETIC FEMORAL FRACTURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BONE PLATES; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; KNEE INJURIES; KNEE PROSTHESIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950648564     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.92B3.22996     Document Type: Article

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