Functional outcome and mortality in geriatric distal femoral fractures

Injury

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1096-1101

  Kammerlander, C ^a   Riedmuller P ^a   Gosch, M ^b   Zegg, M ^a   Kammerlander Knauer, U ^a   Schmid, R ^a   Roth, T ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Hochzirl State Hospital   (Austria)

Author keywords

Barthel index; Distal femoral fractures; LISS; Long term outcome; Mortality; Osteoporotic fracture; Parker score

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; BONE PLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; FUNCTIONAL OUTCOME; GERIATRICS; HARDWARE FAILURE; HEART DISEASE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MORTALITY; PARKER SCORE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WALKING AID; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; MALE; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84862857855     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2012.02.014     Document Type: Article

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