Injury
Volume 41, Issue 4 , Pages 343-347 , April 2010

Clinical characteristics and long-term mortality of occult hip fracture elderly patients

  • Yichayaou Beloosesky

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geriatrics, Rabin Medical Centre, Beilinson Hospital, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, 49372 Petach Tikvah, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +972 3 937 6820; fax: +972 3 937 6817.
    • ,
  • Avital Hershkovitz

      Affiliations

    • Beit Rivka, Geriatric Rehabilitation Hospital, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Petach Tikvah, Israel
    • ,
  • Alexandr Guz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geriatrics, Rabin Medical Centre, Beilinson Hospital, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, 49372 Petach Tikvah, Israel
    • ,
  • Haim Golan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, Assaf Harofeh Medical Centre, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Zerifin, Israel
    • ,
  • Moshe Salai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthopedics, Rabin Medical Centre, Beilinson Hospital, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Petach Tikvah, Israel
    • ,
  • Avraham Weiss

      Affiliations

    • Department of Geriatrics, Rabin Medical Centre, Beilinson Hospital, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, 49372 Petach Tikvah, Israel

,Accepted 17 August 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.08.017

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