Comminuted avulsion fractures of the inferior pole of the patella

Unfallchirurg

Volumn 99, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 71-72

  Veselko, M ^a   Smrkolj, V ^a   Tonin, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Basket plate; Patella fracture

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AVULSION FRACTURE; CASE REPORT; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATELLA FRACTURE;

AGED; BONE PLATES; BONE WIRES; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HUMANS; MALE; PATELLA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0030059069     PISSN: 01775537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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