Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 38-47 , January 2007

Measurement of local strains induced into the femur by trochanteric Gamma nail implants with one or two distal screws

  • Vincenzo Filardi
    • ,
  • Roberto Montanini

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Industrial Chemistry and Materials Engineering, University of Messina, Salita Sperone 31, 98166 Sant’Agata (ME), Messina, Italy. Tel.: +39 090 3977248; fax: +39 090 3977464.

Received 31 August 2005 ,Revised 18 January 2006 ,Accepted 20 January 2006.

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PII: S1350-4533(06)00025-7

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2006.01.010

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 29, Issue 1 , Pages 38-47 , January 2007

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