Fractures in brief; Intertrochanteric hip fractures

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 468, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1450-1452

  Ahn, Jaimo ^a   Bernstein, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE NAIL; BONE PLATE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCREW; BONE STRUCTURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FALLING; FEMUR INTERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HIP FRACTURE; HIP PAIN; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 77953289949     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-010-1263-2     Document Type: Short Survey

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