Evidence for Success with Locking Plates for Fragility Fractures

HSS Journal

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 164-169

  Cornell, Charles N ^a,b   Ayalon, Omri ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

fragility fractures; locking plates; osteoporosis; proximal humerus; supracondylar femur fractures

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960939139     PISSN: 15563316     EISSN: 15563324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11420-010-9194-8     Document Type: Review

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