Fixation of periprosthetic femur fractures above total knee arthroplasty with the less invasive stabilization system: A midterm follow-up study

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 670-676

  Kolb, Werner ^a   Guhlmann, Hanno ^a   Windisch, Christoph ^a   Marx, Frank ^a   Koller, Heiko ^b   Kolb, Klaus ^b  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b Katharinenhospital ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

LISS; Periprosthetic femur fracture; Total knee arthroplasty

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ABOVE TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; INTERNAL FIXATOR; KNEE FUNCTION; LESS INVASIVE STABILIZATION SYSTEM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDICLE SCREW; PERIPROSTHETIC FEMUR FRACTURE; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; RANGE OF MOTION; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPROSTHETIC FRACTURE; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPROSTHETIC FRACTURES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77957574192     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181c9ba3b     Document Type: Article

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