Skeletal fixation of grade IIIB tibial fractures: The potential of metaanalysis

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 332, Issue , 1996, Pages 10-15

  Dervin, Geoffrey F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEG FRACTURE; META ANALYSIS; OPEN FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029805996     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199611000-00003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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