Grade III open tibial fractures. Functional outcome and quality of life in amputees versus patients with successful reconstruction

Injury

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 329-334

  Hoogendoorn, J M ^a   Van der Werken, Chr ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENERGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; LEG AMPUTATION; LIMB SALVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN FRACTURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLEEP; TIBIA FRACTURE;

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035040350     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(00)00250-3     Document Type: Article

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