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Periprosthetic Fractures

"Periprosthetic Fractures" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Fractures around joint replacement prosthetics or implants. They can occur intraoperatively or postoperatively.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Periprosthetic Fractures" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Periprosthetic Fractures" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 38 publications over 14 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2017
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.