Accuracy of in situ neck-shaft angle and shortening measurements of the anatomically reduced, varus malreduced and shortened proximal femur: Can we believe what we see on the postoperative films?

Injury

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 846-849

  Marmor, Meir ^a   Nystuen, Christopher ^a   Ehemer, Nathan ^b   McClellan, R Trigg ^a   Matityahu, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Santa Rosa Orthopaedic Medical Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Intertrochanteric fractures; Proximal femur imaging; Shortening; Varus

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMUR; FEMUR FRACTURE; FEMUR NECK SHAFT ANGLE; FEMUR NECK SHORTENING; FILM; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

ADULT; AGED; COXA VARA; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FEMUR NECK; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTURE; RADIOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROTATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860757624     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2011.10.010     Document Type: Article

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