On the timing of soft-tissue reconstruction for open fractures of the lower leg

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 119, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 7-12

  Hertel, R ^a   Lambert, S M ^b   Muller S ^a   Ballmer, F T ^a   Ganz, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY LESION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; LIMB SALVAGE; LOWER LEG; MALE; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON RUPTURE; TIBIA FRACTURE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT-BEARING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0032972574     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004020050346     Document Type: Article

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