The Authors discuss their experience with the titanium captured hip screw system for extracapsular fractures.
The present review of the results is based on a case group of 93 patients treated with this method at the Orthopedic and Trauma Clinic of the University of Siena, Italy, from March 1991 to August 1993.
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