Anatomic considerations of locked humeral nailing

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 368, Issue , 1999, Pages 247-254

  Lin, Jinn ^a   Hou, Sheng Mou ^a   Inoue, Nozomu ^b   Chao, Edmund Y S ^b   Hang, Yi Shiong ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MALE; NERVE; NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0032693108     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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