OTA 1996 Posters - Hip Fractures

Tension Band Cable Augmentation of a Sliding Hip Screw Improves Pertrochanteric Femur Fracture Fixation: A Blomechanical Study

James C. Krieg, MD, C. J. Stankewich, PhD, Peter T. Simonian, MD, M. L. Chip Routt, MD, Allan Tencer, PhD, Richard Harrington, MS

Dept. of Orthopaedics, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA

Prospective Clinical Study with a new Femur Nail for Internal Fixation of Proximal Femur Fractures

Reinhard Hoffmann, MD, Michael Schütz, MD , Stefan Kolbeck, MD, Nobert Südkamp, MD, Norbert Haas MD

Virchow Klinikum, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Femoral Shaft Fractures: The Evolution of AO/ASIF Plating Technique and Evaluation of Results

S. Robert Rozbruch, MD, Urs Muller, MD, Emmanuel Gautier, MD, Reinhold Ganz, MD

Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

A Comparison of Keyed and Non-Keyed Sliding Hip Screws in the Treatment of Intertrochanteric Hip Fractures

Anthony P. Yang, MD, Paul E. Levin, MD, Kathleen Finzel, MD, Alvin C. Ong, MD

SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York

Predictors of Failure: When Internal Fixation may be Inappropriate for the Treatment of Displaced Subcapital Fractures

Susan Jaglal, PhD, D. Chua, MD, J. Schatzker, MD

University of Toronto, M.E. Müller Program in Research, Sunnybrook Health Science Ctr, Toronto, Canada

A Mechanical Comparison of Subtrochanteric Femur Fracture Fixation

Kevin J. Pugh, MD, John T. Gorczyca, MD, Robert A. Morgan, MD, David Pienkowski, PhD

University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, KY

Augmentation of Femoral Neck Fracture Fixation with an Injectable Calcium-Phosphate Bone Mineral Cement

C.J. Stankewich, M. F. Swiontkowski, MD, Allan F. Tencer, PhD , D. N. Yetkinler, R. D. Poser

Department of Orthopedics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Norian Corporation, Cupertino, CA