Trauma update mutilating injuries to the hand: Early amputation or repair and reconstruction

Orthopedics

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 683-684

  Arellano, Alfonso Osuna ^a   Wegener, Eric E ^a   Freeland, Alan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXCISION; FINGER AMPUTATION; FINGER INJURY; HAND INJURY; HAND RECONSTRUCTION; HUMAN; REVIEW; TISSUE INJURY; ADULT; AMPUTATION; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HAND; INJURY SCALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; FEMALE; FINGER INJURIES; HAND; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033159784     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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