Treatment of large skeletal defects in the lower extremities using double-strut, free vascularized fibular bone grafting

Orthopedics

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 739-744

  Chang, Ming Chau ^a   Lo, Wai Hee ^a   Chen, Chuan Mu ^a   Chen, Tain Hsiung ^a  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; BONE GRAFT; CANCELLOUS BONE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FIBULA; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; KNEE FUNCTION; LEG; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; MALE; STRESS FRACTURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; WALKING;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FIBULA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032792888     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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