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Unexpected iatrogenic fracture of the femoral neck during subtrochanteric fracture fixation in a patient on bisphosphonate treatment for osteoporosis: Case report
Osteoporotic patients being treated with bisphosphonates present an interesting dilemma when removing hardware such as dynamic hip screws “DHS”. In this paper, we describe the case of a 66-year-old osteoporotic patient who was placed on long term bisphosphonate therapy after sustaining an intertroch...
Autores principales: | Barimani, Bardia, Khan, Kashif, Abduljabbar, Fahad, Volesky, Monica, Antoniou, John |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7062943/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32181318 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tcr.2020.100290 |
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