The importance of lag screw position for the stabilization of trochanteric fractures with a sliding hip screw: A subject-specific finite element study

Journal of Orthopaedic Research

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 596-600

  Goffin, Jérôme M ^a   Pankaj, Pankaj ^a   Simpson, A Hamish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cut out; osteosynthesis; tip apex distance; yield strain

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE MASS; BONE SCREW; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; FEMUR IMPLANT; FEMUR NECK; FEMUR SHAFT FRACTURE; FEMUR TROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; BIOMECHANICS; BONE SCREWS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; FEMUR HEAD; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS;

EID: 84874645368     PISSN: 07360266     EISSN: 1554527X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jor.22266     Document Type: Article

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