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Biomechanical investigation of dynamic hip screw and wire fixation on an unstable intertrochanteric fracture

BACKGROUND: Although use of a dynamic hip screw (DHS) for stable intertrochanteric hip fracture fixation has been successfully applied in fracture healing for more than 20 years, DHS fixation on unstable intertrochanteric fractures still has a high failure rate, especially in patients with osteoporo...

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Autores principales: Wu, Hsu-Fu, Chang, Chih-Han, Wang, Gwo-Jaw, Lai, Kuo-An, Chen, Chung-Hwan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6482576/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31018860
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12938-019-0663-0