Hybrid external fixation in the treatment of tibial plafond fractures

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 332, Issue , 1996, Pages 16-22

  Barbieri, Rocco ^a,c   Schenk, Richard ^a   Koval, Kenneth ^b   Aurori, Kevin ^a   Aurori, Brian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY AND VISUAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISTAL TIBIA FRACTURE; FEMALE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIA FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029852787     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199611000-00004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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