The effect of fracture pattern stability on implant loading in OTA type 31-A2 proximal femur fractures

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 683-689

  Marmor, Meir ^a   Liddle, Kate ^a   Pekmezci, Murat ^a   Buckley, Jenni ^b   Matityahu, Amir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Taylor Collaboration   (United States)

Author keywords

31 A2; Fracture Fixation; Instability; Proximal Femur Fracture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE DENSITY; BONE IMPLANT; CADAVER; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FEMUR INTERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FEMUR INTERTROCHANTERIC OSTEOTOMY; FEMUR OSTEOTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; MALE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLIDING HIP SCREW AND INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; SLIDING HIP SCREW AND SIDE PLATE; STRAIN GAUGE TRANSDUCER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

BONE NAILS; BONE SCREWS; CADAVER; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84889097286     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: 15312291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BOT.0b013e31828bacb4     Document Type: Article

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