A simple technique to position patients with bilateral above-knee amputations for operative fixation of intertrochanteric fractures of the femur: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Intertrochanteric fractures of the femur are common fractures in the elderly, and management includes operative fixation after patient positioning on the fracture table. Patients with bilateral above-knee amputations are challenging in terms of positioning on the table. We describe a s...

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Autores principales: Aqil, Adeel, Desai, Aravind, Dramis, Asterios, Hossain, Saqif
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21118535
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-390

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3012042/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21118535
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-390

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