The "floating ankle": A pattern of violent injury. Treatment with thin-pin external fixation

Military Medicine

Volumn 167, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 454-458

  McHale, Kathleen A ^a   Gajewski, Donald A ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE INJURY; ARMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FOOT INJURY; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; HUMAN; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; SHOE; SOLDIER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA FRACTURE; UNITED STATES; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0036087588     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/167.6.454     Document Type: Article

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