Operative stabilisation of painful non-united multiple rib fractures

Injury

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 637-639

  Ng, A B Y ^a   Giannoudis, P V ^a   Bismil, Q ^a   Hinsche, A F ^a   Smith, R M ^a  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FRACTURE HEALING; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PLATE FIXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RIB FRACTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; RIB FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034801797     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(01)00017-1     Document Type: Article

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