Intracapsular Femoral Neck Fractures in the Elderly

Currently, intracapsular femoral neck fracture (IFNF) is still a great challenge for orthopedists. In spite of the progress that has been made, a high mortality rate persists in the first year, especially in Brazil, where there is no awareness that such fractures in elderly patients should be treate...

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Autores principales: Queiroz, Roberto Dantas, Borger, Richard Armelin, Heitzmann, Lourenço Galizia, Fingerhut, David Jeronimo Peres, Saito, Luiz Henrique
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Revinter Publicações Ltda. 2022
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9246523/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35785116
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1736473
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Borger, Richard Armelin
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Fingerhut, David Jeronimo Peres
Saito, Luiz Henrique
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description Currently, intracapsular femoral neck fracture (IFNF) is still a great challenge for orthopedists. In spite of the progress that has been made, a high mortality rate persists in the first year, especially in Brazil, where there is no awareness that such fractures in elderly patients should be treated as a medical emergency. The present article seeks to provide an update on the preoperative, surgical, and postoperative approaches.
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spelling pubmed-92465232022-07-01 Intracapsular Femoral Neck Fractures in the Elderly Queiroz, Roberto Dantas Borger, Richard Armelin Heitzmann, Lourenço Galizia Fingerhut, David Jeronimo Peres Saito, Luiz Henrique Rev Bras Ortop (Sao Paulo) Currently, intracapsular femoral neck fracture (IFNF) is still a great challenge for orthopedists. In spite of the progress that has been made, a high mortality rate persists in the first year, especially in Brazil, where there is no awareness that such fractures in elderly patients should be treated as a medical emergency. The present article seeks to provide an update on the preoperative, surgical, and postoperative approaches. Thieme Revinter Publicações Ltda. 2022-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9246523/ /pubmed/35785116 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1736473 Text en Sociedade Brasileira de Ortopedia e Traumatologia. This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commecial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.
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