Treatment Unstable Trochanteric Fracture of the Femur
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Trochanteric Fracture of the Femur
So says the Psalmist, and how forcibly do his words strike us when coinsidlering the conditions which affect the aged. These constitute social, medical and surgical problems with which at present we are not keeping pace. Of the surgical problems, none is more challenging or more vorthy of thoughlt than the trochanteric fracture of the femur-the fracture of the twilight of life. This very specia...
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عنوان ژورنال: Orthopedics & Traumatology
سال: 1988
ISSN: 1349-4333,0037-1033
DOI: 10.5035/nishiseisai.37.772