'The bigger they come...': The relationship between body mass index and severity of ankle fractures

Injury

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 687-689

  Spaine, L A ^a   Bollen, S R ^a  

^a BRADFORD ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANKLE INJURIES; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030433862     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(96)00136-2     Document Type: Article

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