Short term external support promotes healing in semirigidly fixed fractures

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 343, Issue , 1997, Pages 157-163

  Pettilä, Markus H ^a,c   Sarna, Seppo ^a   Paavolainen, Pekka ^b   Michelsson, Jarl Erik E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b JORVI HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CALLUS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FEMALE; FEMUR OSTEOTOMY; FEMUR SHAFT FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; IMMOBILIZATION; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SPLINT; TORQUE;

EID: 0030845240     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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