Internal Fixation of Supracondylar Femoral Fractures: Comparative Biomechanical Performance of the 95-Degree Blade Plate and Two Retrograde Nails

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 259-266

  Ito, Keita ^a   Grass, Rene ^b   Zwipp, Hans ^b  

^a AO RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distal femur; Fractures; Internal fixation; Mechanical testing; Retrograde nail

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE NAIL; BONE PLATE; CADAVER; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMUR FRACTURE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PROSTHESIS; RADIOGRAPHY;

BIOMECHANICS; BONE NAILS; BONE PLATES; CADAVER; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; PROSTHESIS DESIGN;

EID: 0032061512     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005131-199805000-00008     Document Type: Article

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