High revision rate but good healing capacity of atypical femoral fractures. A comparison with common shaft fractures

Injury

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2468-2473

  Schilcher, Jörg ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Atypical femoral fracture; Bisphosphonate; Delayed healing; Fracture healing

Indexed keywords

BISPHOSPHONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PARATHYROID HORMONE[1-34]; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CALLUS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPRESSION SCREW; DEVICE REMOVAL; ENDOPROSTHESIS FRACTURE; FEMALE; FEMUR PROSTHESIS; FEMUR SHAFT; FEMUR SHAFT FRACTURE; FEMUR SUBTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; ICD-10; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; LOCKING SCREW; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; REOPERATION; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SCREW LOOSENING; STRESS FRACTURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FOLLOW UP; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWEDEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT BEARING;

AGED; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SWEDEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 84949798016     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2015.09.031     Document Type: Article

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