Tip apex distance, hip screw placement, and neck shaft angle as potential risk factors for cut-out failure of hip screws after surgical treatment of intertrochanteric fractures

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2347-2354

  Andruszkow, Hagen ^a   Frink, Michael ^a   Frömke, Cornelia ^a   Matityahu, Amir ^b   Zeckey, Christian ^a   Mommsen, Philipp ^a   Suntardjo, Stefanie ^a   Krettek, Christian ^a   Hildebrand, Frank ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; FEMALE; FEMUR INTERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HIP SCREW PLACEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NECK SHAFT ANGLE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TIP APEX DISTANCE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMUR NECK; HIP FRACTURE; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERNAL FIXATOR; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MALE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 84876551252     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: 14325195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-012-1636-0     Document Type: Article

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