Should we operate on occult hip fractures?

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 316-317

  Rubin, Guy ^a,b   Malka, Itzik ^a,b   Rozen, Nimrod ^a,b  

^a HAEMEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hip fracture; Intertrochanteric fracture; Occult fracture; Subcapital hip fracture

Indexed keywords

TECHNETIUM 99M;

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FALLING; FOLLOW UP; HIP FRACTURE; HIP PAIN; HIP RADIOGRAPHY; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MOBILIZATION; WEIGHT BEARING; COMPLICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FRACTURES, CLOSED; HIP; HIP FRACTURES; PAIN; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, CLOSED; HIP FRACTURES; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77953485033     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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