Outpatient management of low-velocity gunshot-induced fractures

Orthopedics

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 951-954

  Dickson, K ^a   Watson, T S ^a   Haddad, C ^a   Jenne, J ^a   Harris, M ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CEFAZOLIN; TETANUS TOXOID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DEBRIDEMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FIBULA; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MISSILE WOUND; OUTPATIENT CARE; PARESTHESIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; STANDARD; VELOCITY; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; WOUND IRRIGATION;

ADULT; AGED; CEFAZOLIN; CEPHALEXIN; CEPHALOSPORINS; CHILD; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0034757491     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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