Urban versus rural differences in the occurrence of hip fractures in Japan’s Kyoto prefecture during 2008–2010: a comparison of femoral neck and trochanteric fractures

BACKGROUND: To investigate the differences in the characteristics of femoral neck and trochanteric fractures between urban and rural areas of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. METHODS: Fracture type (neck vs. trochanteric), age, sex, place where fracture occurred (indoors vs. outdoors), and cause of injury...

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Autores principales: Horii, Motoyuki, Fujiwara, Hiroyoshi, Ikeda, Takumi, Ueshima, Keiichiro, Ikoma, Kazuya, Shirai, Toshiharu, Terauchi, Ryu, Nagae, Masateru, Kuriyama, Nagato, Kubo, Toshikazu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4016527/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24156244
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-14-304

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4016527/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24156244
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2474-14-304

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