Osteolytic reaction to polylevolactic acid fracture fixation

Orthopedics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 177-179

  Rovinsky, D ^a   Nissen, T P ^a   Otsuka, N Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYLEVOLACTIC ACID; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANKLE; ANKLE INJURY; ANKLE RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; BONE REMODELING; CANCELLOUS BONE; CORTICAL BONE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; MALLEOLUS FRACTURE; METAL IMPLANTATION; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOLYSIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; ADULT; ANKLE INJURIES; ANKLE JOINT; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; MALE; OSTEOLYSIS; POLYGLYCOLIC ACID;

EID: 0035092802     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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