Pertrochanteric fractures (AO/OTA 31-A1 and A2) not amenable to closed reduction: Causes of irreducibility

Injury

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1950-1957

  Sharma, Gaurav ^a   Kumar, Kiran ^a   Yadav, Sanjay ^a   Lakhotia, Devendra ^a   Singh, Ravijot ^a   Gamanagatti, Shivanand ^a   Sharma, Vijay ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Irreducible; Pertrochanteric hip fracture

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE LEVER; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYNAMIC HIP SCREW; FALLING; FEMALE; FEMUR PERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; ILIOPSOAS MUSCLE; INJURY SEVERITY; JOINT MOBILITY; LESSER TROCHANTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPEN REDUCTION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL TIBIA FRACTURE; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT FAILURE; VERY ELDERLY; X RAY FILM; YOUNG ADULT; ACETABULUM; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; INDIA; INJURIES; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACETABULUM; ADULT; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84922573106     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2014.10.007     Document Type: Article

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