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Eight orthopedic surgeons achieved moderate to excellent reliability measuring the preoperative posterior tilt angle in 50 Garden-I and Garden-II femoral neck fractures

BACKGROUND: Studies of elderly patients with Garden-I and Garden-II femoral neck fractures (FNFs) suggest that a preoperative posterior tilt of the femoral head of at least 20° increases the risk of fixation failure. A recently published treatment algorithm recommended hemiarthroplasty over internal...

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Autores principales: Dolatowski, Filip C., Hoelsbrekken, Sigurd Erik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5605970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28927455
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13018-017-0632-x