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  • Title: [Primary management and problems with osteosynthesis of subtrochanteric fractures of the femur].
    Author: Jekić ML, Jekić IM.
    Journal: Helv Chir Acta; 1993 Mar; 59(4):553-5. PubMed ID: 8473168.
    Abstract:
    From 1986 to 1991 we treated 63 patients with subtrochanteric fracture of the femur. The etiology in 53 patients with 40 fractures mostly pedestrians, hit by a car; or motor vehicle accidents, in other words high velocity injuries that resulted in a significant number of multiply injured patients of whom 38 were polytraumatized, by our definition a multiply injured person with a life threatening injury of at least one of the following body parts: head, neck, thorax, abdomen, spine, extremities with neurovascular compromise and pelvic girdle.
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