Supracondylar fractures: What’s New?

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics Part B

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 110-116

  Wilkins, Kaye E ^a  

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

Author keywords

Humorus fractures; Supracondylar fractures

Indexed keywords

ARTERY INJURY; BRACHIAL ARTERY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMERUS SUPRACONDYLAR FRACTURE; JOINT STABILITY; NERVE INJURY; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BRACHIAL ARTERY; CASTS, SURGICAL; CHILD; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0030982466     PISSN: 1060152X     EISSN: 14735865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01202412-199704000-00006     Document Type: Article

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