Arthroplasty for Acute Hip Fractures, Early Results
published by Damascus University
in 2000
in Medicine
and research's language is
العربية
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Abstract in English
THA as a primary management for acute fractures around the hip should
generally be reserved to a very selected few patients where the general
condition, life expectancy, age, bone quality, pathological changes, type of
injury...
Primary THA for acute fractures around the hip done with proper
patient selection under the proper condition, and requirements can result
in good clinical results with excellent short-term survival of the
prosthesis.
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