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Treatment of femoral neck fractures in elderly patients over 60 years of age - which is the ideal modality of primary joint replacement?

BACKGROUND: Femoral neck fractures in the elderly are frequent, represent a great health care problem, and have a significant impact on health insurance costs. Reconstruction options using hip arthroplasty include unipolar or bipolar hemiarthroplasty (HA), and total hip arthroplasty (THA). The purpo...

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Autores principales: Ossendorf, Christian, Scheyerer, Max J, Wanner, Guido A, Simmen, Hans-Peter, Werner, Clément ML
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2972258/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20961437
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1754-9493-4-16