Retrograde femoral nailing in elderly patients with supracondylar fracture femur; is it the answer for a clinical problem?

BACKGROUND: Supracondylar fractures of femur constitute 7% of all femoral fractures. In elderly patients, they are invariably low-energy fractures predisposed to by osteoporosis. Treatment of these fractures in the elderly is a challenging task for most orthopaedic surgeons. There is no consensus on...

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Main Authors: El-Kawy, Sameh, Ansara, Sameh, Moftah, Alaa, Shalaby, Hisham, Varughese, Vinod
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Springer-Verlag 2006
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2267530/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16683109
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00264-006-0137-4
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