The effect of fracture malunion at the mid-shaft of the metacarpal on the extrinsic muscle forces

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 485-491

  Pereira, B P ^a   Low, C K ^b   Ng, R T H ^b   Low, Y P ^b   Wong, H P ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Bone shortening; Cadaver study; Dorsal angulation; Fracture malunion; Second metacarpal

Indexed keywords

BONE; CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS; MUSCLE; SURGERY;

BONE SHORTENING; DORSAL ANGULATION; EXTRINSIC MUSCLE FORCES; FRACTURE MALUNION; METACARPAL;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CADAVER; FORCE; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; METACARPAL BONE FRACTURE; MUSCLE FORCE; OSTEOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TENDON;

EID: 0032189449     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(98)00029-1     Document Type: Article

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