Salvage of contaminated fractures of the distal humerus with thin wire external fixation

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 359, Issue , 1999, Pages 203-208

  Ring, David ^a   Jupiter, Jesse B ^a   Toh, Satoshi ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BONE INFECTION; ELBOW FRACTURE; ELBOW RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; JOINT MOBILITY; JOINT STABILITY; KIRSCHNER WIRE; MALE; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0032985464     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-199902000-00022     Document Type: Article

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