CT assessment of torsion following locked intramedullary nailing of tibial fractures

Injury

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 467-470

  Prasad, C V R ^a   Khalid, Mohamed ^a   McCarthy, P ^b   O'Sullivan, M E ^a  

^a Merlin Pk Reg Univ Coll H   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GALWAY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIA FRACTURE; TIBIA TORSION;

COHORT STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HUMANS; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TORSION;

EID: 0032838848     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(99)00132-1     Document Type: Article

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