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Treatment of Basicervical Neck Fracture of the Femur with Gamma Nail

, 2005
Koji Tozawa, Masami Tokunaga, Takaaki Yoshimoto, Junichi Tokunaga   +3 more
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Comparison of accuracy of lag screw placement in cephalocondylic nails and sliding hip screw plate fixation for extracapsular fractures of the neck of femur

, 2006
Arvind Kumar, Vinay Parmar, John Bankart, Steven Williams, W. M. Harper   +4 more
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TREATMENT OF FRACTURES OF THE NECK OF THE FEMUR

Annals of Surgery, 1932
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The male neck of femur [PDF]

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, 2006
Fractured neck of femur in elderly is associated with mortality which is reported in literature to vary between 20 and 40%. One of the factors which is suggested to be a risk factor is male sex. We reviewed 83 male necks of femur patients admitted over a period of a year to assess the patient's physical status, influence of co-morbidities ...
R. L. Mehta, H. V. Kurup
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Fractured neck of femur

Nursing Standard, 1999
This article discusses the risk factors associated with fractured neck of femur in older people and outlines the assessments and post-operative care that should be undertaken by nurses.
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FRACTURE OF THE NECK OF THE FEMUR

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1939
Fracture of the neck of the femur has the highest death rate of any simple fracture of the long bones in advanced middle age or old age. Crippling and permanent disability from nonunion and stiff joints have afflicted nearly half those who survive. The high mortality and serious disability have led to trial of operative internal fixation for many years,
MARTIN B. TINKER, MARTIN B. TINKER, A. T. Kerr, W. M. Sawdon   +3 more
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Pseudarthrosis of the Neck of the Femur [PDF]

, 1976
Until 1927 pseudarthrosis of the neck of the femur was practically incurable (M. Lange, 1951)27. This is the first condition for which I attempted to furnish an explanation of the influence of mechanical stress on the healing of fractures and to draw conclusions concerning a basic treatment (Pauwels, 1935)28.
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Fractures of the neck of the femur

Trauma, 2008
A hip fracture represents one of the commonest reasons for an elderly patient to be admitted to an acute orthopaedic ward. The average age of patients is about 80 years and the most patients are female. Surgical treatment is recommended for the majority of fractures.
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FRACTURE OF THE NECK OF THE FEMUR

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1932
To the Editor: —I note that Dr. Magnuson, in his instructive paper on repair of ununited fracture of the neck of the femur (The Journal, May 21, p. 1791) employs what he calls the Brackett operation. The operation is, in substance, removal of the trochanter at its base, transplanting it to the outer border of the shaft, and inserting the denuded neck
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Churchill’s fractured neck of femur

Journal of Medical Biography, 2019
In June 1962 at the age of 87 years, Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965) fell over in his hotel room at the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo and sustained a fracture to the neck of his left femur. He was flown back to London and the fracture operated on at The Middlesex Hospital by two eminent orthopaedic surgeons, Mr Phillip Newman (1911–1994), Consultant
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