Low-intensity pulsed ultrasound in the treatment of nonunions

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 693-703

  Nolte, Peter A ^a   van der Krans, Arie ^a   Patka, Peter ^a   Janssen, Ignace M C ^b   Ryaby, John P ^b   Albers, G H Robert ^c  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Traumatology ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fracture treatment; Noninvasive; Nonunion; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; CALLUS; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; MALE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; PULSATILE FLOW; RADIUS FRACTURE; SCAPHOID FRACTURE; SMOKING HABIT; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASTS, SURGICAL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 0034762830     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200110000-00012     Document Type: Article

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