Management and therapeutic outcome in type IIIC open fractures associated with arterial injury;Behandlungskonzept und Ergebnisse von drittgradig offenen Frakturen mit rekonstruktionspflichtigen Arterienverletzungen

Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie

Volumn 121, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 990-993

  Ostermann, P A W ^a   Hahn, M P ^a   Henry, S L ^b   Seligson, D ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

amputation rate; arterial repair; grade III open fractures

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TOBRAMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMPUTATION; ARM; ARM INJURIES; ARTERIES; DRUG IMPLANTS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TOBRAMYCIN;

EID: 0029855502     PISSN: 0044409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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