A cohort study of 4,190 patients treated with low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS): findings in the elderly versus all patients

BACKGROUND: Patient age is one of many potential risk factors for fracture nonunion. Our hypothesis is that older patients (≥60) with fracture risk factors treated with low-intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) have similar heal rate (HR) to the population as a whole. We evaluate the impact of age in...

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Autores principales: Zura, Robert, Mehta, Samir, Rocca, Gregory J Della, Jones, John, Steen, R Grant
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4357153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25886761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-015-0498-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4357153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25886761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12891-015-0498-1

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