Current concepts review: Fracture-dislocation of the elbow

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 566-580

  Ring, David ^a   Jupiter, Jesse B ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTHROPLASTY; ELBOW DISLOCATION; ELBOW FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HUMAN; JOINT INSTABILITY; JOINT STIFFNESS; LIGAMENT INJURY; OLECRANON FRACTURE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS HEAD FRACTURE; REVIEW; ULNA FRACTURE; DISLOCATION; ELBOW; FRACTURE; HISTOLOGY; INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY;

DISLOCATIONS; ELBOW JOINT; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0032044165     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/00004623-199804000-00014     Document Type: Review

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