Immediate application of fracture braces in humeral shaft fractures

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 732-735

  Rangger, Christoph ^a   Kathrein, Anton ^b   Klestil, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELBOW FLEXION; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032916877     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199904000-00033     Document Type: Article

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