Observations concerning different patterns of bone healing using the Point Contact Fixator (PC-Fix) as a new technique for fracture fixation

Injury

Volumn 32, Issue SUPPL.2, 2001, Pages

  Hofer, H P ^a   Wildburger, R ^a   Szyszkowitz, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biological osteosynthesis; Bone healing; Point Contact Fixator (PC Fix)

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CALLUS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIUS FRACTURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; ULNA FRACTURE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONY CALLUS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, OPEN; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMAN; INTERNAL FIXATORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RADIUS FRACTURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; ULNA FRACTURES; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0035462067     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0020-1383(01)00122-x     Document Type: Article

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