Fractures of the shaft of the femur: progress in treatment (1961-1971). Experience with conservative traction with ambulatory cast brace treatment in seventy-five patients

Am J Surg. 1974 Apr;127(4):434-41. doi: 10.1016/0002-9610(74)90293-1.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Ambulatory Care*
  • Braces*
  • Casts, Surgical*
  • Child
  • Costs and Cost Analysis
  • Female
  • Femoral Fractures / diagnostic imaging
  • Femoral Fractures / surgery
  • Femoral Fractures / therapy*
  • Fracture Fixation
  • Hospitalization
  • Humans
  • Immobilization
  • Male
  • Massachusetts
  • Middle Aged
  • Necrosis
  • Postoperative Complications / epidemiology
  • Pressure
  • Radiography
  • Recurrence
  • Traction*