Decision making errors in the use of interlocking tibial nails

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 339, Issue , 1997, Pages 65-70

  Templeman, D ^a   Larson, C ^a   Varecka, T ^a   Kyle, R F ^a  

^a HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCREW; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HUMAN; INTERLOCKING NAIL; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIBIA FRACTURE; TIBIA SHAFT;

EID: 0030963280     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199706000-00009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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