The AO distal locking aiming deviceAn evaluation of efficacy and learning curve

Injury

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 713-718

  Pardiwala, Dinshaw ^a,b   Prabhu, Vidyanand ^a   Dudhniwala, Gaffar ^a   Katre, Ravindra ^a  

^a RN Cooper Hospital   (India)

^b Jiwan 7 A ^*  (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMUR FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NAIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE;

BONE NAILS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FEMUR; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0034801126     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(01)00100-0     Document Type: Article

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