Minimally displaced distal radius fractures: Do they need plaster treatment?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 503-505

  Stoffelen, D ^a   Broos, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIUS FRACTURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; TREATMENT PLANNING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0031902472     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199803000-00014     Document Type: Article

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