Publications by authors named "Wu-Lin Chen"
Objectives: The prevalence of convenience and beverage stores in Taiwan provides an environment for children to access different beverages. To our knowledge, the relationship between beverage consumption types and anthropometrics in children has not been reported in Taiwan. The aim of this study was to examine the association between the consumption frequency of beverage type and anthropometrics in third-grade children.
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- * A total of 492 out of 1397 patients were examined, classified into three types based on their Garden Index measurements, with type A showing the best healing rates and lowest necrosis incidence.
- * The results indicated significant differences in nonunion and necrosis rates among the three types, with type A patients experiencing fewer complications compared to types B and C.
Objective: To compare the clinical effects of two methods of internal fixation in treating unstable femoral intertrochanteric fractures in elderly patients.
Methods: From August 2009 to August 2014, 68 elderly patients with unstable femoral intertrochanteric fracture treated with locking proximal femur plate and auxiliary short reconstructed plate (reconstructing calcar group) and proximal femoral nail antirotation (PFNA group) with clinical course from 1 to 3 days were retrospectively analyzed. In reconstructing calcar group, there were 30 patients including 8 males and 22 females, aged from 63 to 85 years old with an average of (73.