Quantitative assessment of bone injury and repair after reamed and unreamed locked intramedullary nailing

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 250-255

  Schemitsch, Emil H ^a,c   Turchin, Diana C ^a   Kowalski, Milek J ^b   Swiontkowski, Marc F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cortical porosity; Intramedullary nail insertion; New bone formation; Reaming

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BONE INJURY; BONE REMODELING; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DIAPHYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL SURGERY; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; LONG BONE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; OSSIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIBIA;

EID: 0031691455     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199808000-00008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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