The floating knee in the pediatric patient: Nonoperative versus operative stabilization

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 376, Issue , 2000, Pages 124-136

  Yue, James J ^a   Churchill, R Sean ^a   Cooperman, Daniel R ^a   Yasko, Alan W ^a   Wilber, John H ^a   Thompson, George H ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMUR FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNEE SURGERY; LEG LENGTH; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKELETON TRACTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; TIBIA FRACTURE;

EID: 0033917782     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-200007000-00018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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