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Austin Yu1, Conor M Jones2, Gayathri Vijayakumar3

  • 1Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0076-277X.

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この研究では,病理的な骨折の患者は手術前により多くのオピオイドを必要としながら,近接骨折の内部固定から3ヶ月と6ヶ月後に機能的な改善が見られた. 手術後のオピオイド使用は有意に変化しなかった.

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