$Substantially higher prevalence of postoperative periprosthetic fractures in octogenarians with hip fractures operated with a cemented, polished tapered stem rather than an anatomic stem A prospective cohort study involving 979 hips$

Substantially higher prevalence of postoperative periprosthetic fractures in octogenarians with hip fractures operated with a cemented, polished tapered stem rather than an anatomic stem A prospective cohort study involving 979 hips

Background and purpose - Recent studies have demonstrated a high incidence of postoperative periprosthetic femoral fracture (PPF) in elderly patients treated with 2 commonly used cemented, polished tapered stems. We compared the prevalence and incidence rate of PPF in a consecutive cohort of octagen...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Acta orthopaedica 2016, Vol.87 (3), p.257
Hauptverfasser:	Mukka, Sebastian, Mellner, Carl, Knutsson, Bjorn, Sayed-Noor, Arkan, Skoldenberg, Olof
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
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