Measurement of Tip Apex Distance and Migration of Lag Screws and Novel Blade Screw Used for the Fixation of Intertrochanteric Fractures

• Jesse Chieh-Szu Yang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jesse Chieh-Szu Yang, Hsin-Chang Chen

  Affiliation Division of Joint Reconstruction, Department of Orthopaedics, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Hsin-Chang Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jesse Chieh-Szu Yang, Hsin-Chang Chen

  Affiliations Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Orthopaedics, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Yu-Shu Lai ,

  * E-mail: yslai@ym.edu.tw (YSL); ckcheng@ym.edu.tw (CKC)

  Current address: Orthopaedic Device Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Orthopaedic Device Research Center, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6288-1697

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• Cheng-Kung Cheng

  * E-mail: yslai@ym.edu.tw (YSL); ckcheng@ym.edu.tw (CKC)

  Current address: Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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