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Response to “Comments on mortality and cardiorespiratory complications in trochanteric femoral fractures: a ten year retrospective analysis”

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  1. Department of Orthopaedic Trauma, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

    Juliane Carow, John Bennet Carow & Matthias Knobe

  2. Department of Anaesthesiology, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

    Mark Coburn

  3. Department of Plastic Surgery, Hand Surgery - Burn Centre, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

    Bong-Sung Kim

  4. Department of Trauma, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Gießen and Marburg GmbH, Marburg, Germany

    Benjamin Bücking & Christopher Bliemel

  5. Department of Geriatric Medicine, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

    Leo Cornelius Bollheimer

  6. Department of Neurology, Section of Interdisciplinary Geriatric Medicine, RWTH Aachen University Hospital, Aachen, Germany

    Cornelius Johannes Werner & Jan Philipp Bach

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Carow, J., Carow, J.B., Coburn, M. et al. Response to “Comments on mortality and cardiorespiratory complications in trochanteric femoral fractures: a ten year retrospective analysis”. International Orthopaedics (SICOT) 42, 967–968 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00264-017-3755-0

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