Early, full weightbearing with flexible fixation delays fracture healing

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 328, Issue , 1996, Pages 194-202

  Augat, Peter ^a,b   Merk, Josef ^a   Ignatius, Anita ^a   Margevicius, Kristen ^a   Bauer, Gerhard ^a   Rosenbaum, Dieter ^a   Claes, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE REMODELING; CALLUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; TIBIA FRACTURE; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 0029900854     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199607000-00031     Document Type: Article

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