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Since the first report of this injury pattern by Delaney and Street in 1953, [1] the late diagnosis of occult femoral neck fracture associated with ipsilateral femoral shaft fracture has been ...
Lakstein D, Eliaz N, Levi O, et al. Fracture of cementless femoral stems at the mid-stem junction in modular revision hip arthroplasty systems. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2011;93:57-65.
Methods. A literature-based search was conducted to identify all relevant studies published before September 10, 2013. The odd ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI) were used for estimating ...
A recent large trial (Fixation Alternatives in the Treatment of Hip Fractures [FAITH]), in which 1079 patients with a femoral-neck fracture (729 patients with a nondisplaced fracture and 350 with ...
Stress fracture of the femoral neck is rare and often initially missed. A high index of clinical suspicion is required in athletes presenting with a history of insidious onset, exertional groin pain ...
Stryker V40 Femoral Heads (CoCr) Associated With Spontaneous and Catastrophic Head-Neck Dissociation Stryker may face yet another crisis associated with their total hip replacement medical devices ...
Kevin K. Kang, MD, from Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York City, and colleagues randomly assigned 50 patients with an isolated intracapsular femoral neck fracture and treated with hip ...