Should Os calcis fractures in smokers be fixed? A review of 40 patients

Injury

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 631-632

  Assous, M ^a   Bhamra, M S ^a  

^a Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTHRITIS; ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CALCANEUS FRACTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SMOKING HABIT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SUBTALAR JOINT; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; TARSAL BONE; VASCULAR DISEASE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALCANEUS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMOKING; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0034807061     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(00)00130-3     Document Type: Article

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