Bipolar hip hemiarthroplasty in a patient with an above knee amputation: a case report

The treatment of an above knee amputee who has sustained a fracture of femoral neck is a challenge for both the orthopaedic surgeon and the rehabilitation team. We present a case of such a patient and discuss different difficulties in his treatment.

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Autores principales: Kandel, Leonid, Hernandez, Miguel, Safran, Ori, Schwartz, Isabella, Liebergall, Meir, Mattan, Yoav
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19646230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-799X-4-30
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author Kandel, Leonid
Hernandez, Miguel
Safran, Ori
Schwartz, Isabella
Liebergall, Meir
Mattan, Yoav
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Mattan, Yoav
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spelling pubmed-27345582009-08-29 Bipolar hip hemiarthroplasty in a patient with an above knee amputation: a case report Kandel, Leonid Hernandez, Miguel Safran, Ori Schwartz, Isabella Liebergall, Meir Mattan, Yoav J Orthop Surg Res Case Report The treatment of an above knee amputee who has sustained a fracture of femoral neck is a challenge for both the orthopaedic surgeon and the rehabilitation team. We present a case of such a patient and discuss different difficulties in his treatment. BioMed Central 2009-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC2734558/ /pubmed/19646230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-799X-4-30 Text en Copyright © 2009 Kandel et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kandel, Leonid
Hernandez, Miguel
Safran, Ori
Schwartz, Isabella
Liebergall, Meir
Mattan, Yoav
Bipolar hip hemiarthroplasty in a patient with an above knee amputation: a case report
title Bipolar hip hemiarthroplasty in a patient with an above knee amputation: a case report
title_full Bipolar hip hemiarthroplasty in a patient with an above knee amputation: a case report
title_fullStr Bipolar hip hemiarthroplasty in a patient with an above knee amputation: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Bipolar hip hemiarthroplasty in a patient with an above knee amputation: a case report
title_short Bipolar hip hemiarthroplasty in a patient with an above knee amputation: a case report
title_sort bipolar hip hemiarthroplasty in a patient with an above knee amputation: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19646230
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-799X-4-30
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