Femoral-shaft fractures and nonunions treated with intramedullary nails: The role of dynamisation

Injury

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1353-1361

  Papakostidis, Costas ^a   Psyllakis, Ioannis ^b   Vardakas, Demetrios ^a   Grestas, Anastasios ^a   Giannoudis, Peter V ^b  

^a G HATZIKOSTA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamisation; Femur fracture; Femur nonunion; Intramedullary nailing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE ATROPHY; BONE LESION; BONE MALFORMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYNAMISATION; FEMALE; FEMUR SHAFT FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE NAILS; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT-BEARING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052974478     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2011.06.024     Document Type: Article

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