Substantially higher prevalence of postoperative peri­prosthetic fractures in octogenarians with hip fractures operated with a cemented, polished tapered stem rather than an anatomic stem

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Recent studies have demonstrated a high incidence of postoperative periprosthetic femoral fracture (PPF) in elderly patients treated with 2 commonly used cemented, polished tapered stems. We compared the prevalence and incidence rate of PPF in a consecutive cohort of octagene...

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Autores principales: Mukka, Sebastian, Mellner, Carl, Knutsson, Björn, Sayed-Noor, Arkan, Sköldenberg, Olof
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4900095/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27045318
http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/17453674.2016.1162898

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