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Case report| Volume 29, ISSUE 1, P75-76, January 1998

Femoral neck fracture complicating a missed acetabular fracture in an elderly patient

  • C.F. Mann
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    Department of Orthopaedics, Mayday University Hopital, Mayday Road, Thornton Heath, Croydon CR77YE, UK
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  • M.I. Rebollo
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    Department of Orthopaedics, Mayday University Hopital, Mayday Road, Thornton Heath, Croydon CR77YE, UK
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      Abstract

      We report a case of an elderly patient in whom an acetabular fracture was missed, resulting in the unusual complication of an ipsilateral femoral neck fracture.
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