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Operative Techniques for Hip Fracture Pins Wheeless

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Description: - if bone is dense enough to permit stable fixation, patients treated by percutaneous pinning have the advantage of immediate, full weight bearing postoperatively;
- failures in percutaneous pinning include AVN, non-union, failure of reduction, & late segmental collapse;
- options for treating these failures include conversion to hemiarthroplasty or total arthroplasty
Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Type: Reference Material
Author/Contact: C.R.Wheeless
Institution: Duke
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Language: English

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Added: Mon Feb 04 2002
Last Modified: Tue Mar 11 2008