Plating techniques and plate orientation in repair of mandibular angle fractures: An in vitro study

Laryngoscope

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1218-1224

  Fedok, Fred G ^a   Van Kooten, David W ^a   DeJoseph, Louis M ^a   McGinn, Johnathan D ^c   Sobota, Bret ^d   Levin, Roger J ^a   Jacobs, Christopher R ^b  

^a University Hospitals   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYSTYRENE;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; PLATE FIXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WEIGHT BEARING;

BIOMECHANICS; BONE PLATES; HUMANS; MANDIBULAR FRACTURES; MODELS, STRUCTURAL;

EID: 0031877169     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199808000-00022     Document Type: Article

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