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Safe Surgical Dislocation and Open Reduction, Internal Fixation with Herbert Screw for Pipkin's Fracture Head of Femur in an Obese Patient: An Interesting Case Report

Head of femur fractures are relatively rare and tend to be associated with dislocations of the hip and fractures of the acetabulum. Other parts of the femur, namely the neck is also often involved. Only two cases per million are reported on a yearly basis which poses significance due to its extreme...

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Autores principales: Vellingiri, Kishore, Seenappa, Hariprasad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9808877/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36605057
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.32171