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Geriatric distal femur fracture: Are we underestimating the rate of local and systemic complications?
August 2016
August 2016
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Abstract
Low energy distal femur fractures often occur in a fragile elderly population that
is prone to local and systemic complications following operative treatment of extremity
fractures. The nonunion rate and early complication rate following laterally based
locked plating in this specific fracture are not well described.