Our fixation with fixation: Are screws clinically superior to external wires in distal first metatarsal osteotomies?

Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 353-355

  Armstrong, D G ^a   Pupp, G R ^a   Harkless, L B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bunion; Fixation; Foot; Hallux valgus; Screw

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; HALLUX VALGUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METATARSAL BONE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OSTEOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WIRE FIXATION;

EID: 0030730338     PISSN: 10672516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1067-2516(97)80035-X     Document Type: Article

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