Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Pneumonia, and Mortality following Thoracic Injury and a Femoral Fracture Treated Either with Intramedullary Nailing with Reaming or with a Plate. A Comparative Study*
- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
- Vol. 79 (6) , 799-809
- https://doi.org/10.2106/00004623-199706000-00001
Abstract
Multiply injured patients (an Injury Severity Score of 17 points or more) who were admitted to one of two level-I regional trauma centers between 1983 and 1994 because of a fracture of the femoral shaft with a thoracic injury (an Abbreviated Injury Scale score of 2 points or more) or withoutKeywords
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