Load tolerance of tibial plateau depressions reinforced with a cluster of K-wires

Bulletin: Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 12-15

  Beris, Alexandros E ^a   Soucacos, Panayotis N ^a   Glisson, Richard R ^b   Seaber, Anthony V ^b   Urbaniak, James R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

articular; biomechanics; cartilage; Kirschner wires; tibial fractures; weight bearing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CADAVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIRSCHNER WIRE; KNEE; KNEE FUNCTION; TIBIA FRACTURE; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE WIRES; CARTILAGE, ARTICULAR; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; KNEE JOINT; TIBIA; TIBIAL FRACTURES; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0029982289     PISSN: 00185647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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