Treatment of humeral shaft fractures by retrograde locked nailing

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 342, Issue , 1997, Pages 147-155

  Lin, Jinn ^a   Hou, Sheng Mou ^a   Hang, Yi Shiong ^a   Chao, Edmund Y S ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALLUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN FRACTURE; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SHOULDER; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0030800805     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199709000-00022     Document Type: Article

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