Unstable intertrochanteric femur fractures: Is there a consensus on definition and treatment in Germany?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 471, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2831-2840

  Knobe, Matthias ^a   Gradl, Gertraud ^a   Ladenburger, Andreas ^b   Tarkin, Ivan S ^c   Pape, Hans Christoph ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE PLATE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSENSUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EXTRAMEDULLARY PLATE; FEMUR INTERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE TREATMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIME TO TREATMENT;

EID: 84881668531     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-013-2834-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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