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Survival after trochanteric fracture. Biological factors analyzed in 270 patients
L de Palma1, L Rizzi, G Lorini
1Department of Orthopedics, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, School of Medicine, Rome, Italy.
Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica
|December 1, 1992
Abstract:
Factors that influence mortality were analyzed in 270 patients operated on for trochanteric hip fracture. Survival was closely related to age and medical condition at the time of injury; methods of treatment had little influence on survival.