Optimizing bone screw pullout force

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 169-174

  Decoster, Thomas A ^a   Heetderks, David B ^a   Downey, Daniel J ^a   Ferries, James S ^a   Jones, Wendell ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone screw; Fracture fixation; Thread design

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE SCREW; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS;

BIOMECHANICS; BONE SCREWS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMAN; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0025034937     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: 15312291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005131-199004020-00012     Document Type: Article

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