Long bone fracture in a spinal-cord-injured patient: complication of treatment--a case report and review of the literature. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Long bone fractures in patients with spinal cord injuries are difficult to manage. A case is presented in which complications arose after a femur fracture in a paraplegic patient was treated by closed fixation in a long leg circular plaster cast and the literature on management of long bone fractures in patients with spinal cord injuries is reviewed.

publication date

  • October 1, 1991

Research

keywords

  • Femoral Fractures
  • Spinal Cord Injuries

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0026356410

PubMed ID

  • 1942162

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 31

issue

  • 10