Which is the best alternative for displaced femoral neck fractures in the elderly?: A meta-analysis

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 470, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1782-1791

  Gao, Hongwei ^a   Liu, Zhonghao ^a   Xing, Deguo ^a   Gong, Mingzhi ^a  

^a THE SECOND HOSPITAL OF SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETABULAR EROSION; ARTHROPLASTY; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BONE DISLOCATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ELDERLY CARE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL FIXATOR; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; META ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; PSEUDARTHROSIS; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84864276993     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-012-2250-6     Document Type: Review

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