Dynamic hip screws for unstable intertrochanteric fractures in elderly patients-encouraging results with a cement augmentation technique

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 954-964

  Lee, Po Cheng ^a   Hsieh, Pang Hsin ^b   Chou, Ying Chao ^a   Wu, Chi Chuan ^a   Chen, Wen Jer ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bone cement; Dynamic hip screw; Intertrochanteric fractures; Polymethylmethacrylate

Indexed keywords

BONE CEMENT; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CEMENT AUGMENTATION TECHNIQUE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMIC HIP SCREW; FEMALE; FEMORAL SHORTENING; FEMUR INTERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HIP PAIN; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LAG SCREW PENETRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CODING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREW SLIDING; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIME PERCEPTION; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARUS COLLAPSE; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE CEMENTS; BONE SCREWS; CEMENTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951073193     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181c995ec     Document Type: Article

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