The treatment of selected fractures of the humeral shaft with the True-Flex nail

Injury

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 269-275

  Garnavos, Christos ^a,b   Seaton, James ^a   Lunn, Peter G ^a  

^a DERBYSHIRE ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELBOW; FEMALE; FEMUR SHAFT FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATOR CUFF; SHOULDER;

EID: 0031812522     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(98)80204-0     Document Type: Article

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