Advantages of unreamed nailing in grade 3B open tibial fractures compared with external fixation;Vorteile des unaufgebohrten Tibianagels im Vergleich mit Fixateur externe bei der Behandlung von Grad 3B offenen Tibiaschaftfrakturen

Unfallchirurg

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 286-293

  Schandelmaier, P ^a   Krettek, C ^a   Rudolf, J ^a   Kohl, A ^a   Tscherne, H ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

external fixation; grade IIIb open fracture; non reamed locked nailing; tibia fracture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; OPEN FRACTURE; TIBIA FRACTURE;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIBIAL FRACTURES; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 0030925334     PISSN: 01775537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001130050121     Document Type: Article

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