Effects of one-plane and two-plane external fixation on sheep osteotomy healing and complications

Clinical Biomechanics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 470-476

  Krischak, Gert D ^a   Janousek, Andreas ^b   Wolf, Steffen ^a   Augat, Peter ^a   Kinzl, Lothar ^a   Claes, Lutz E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b Unfallkrankenhaus Lorenz Bohler   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; External fixation; Fixation stiffness; Fracture healing; Osteogenesis; Rigidity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE DEVELOPMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOTOMY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHEEP; TIBIA; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; BONE BLOOD FLOW; BONE MINERAL; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCREW; CALLUS; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; NONHUMAN; OPEN FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RIGIDITY; SPINE STABILIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; OSTEOGENESIS; OSTEOTOMY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHEEP; TIBIA; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY;

BLOOD; BONE; FRACTURE; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; RADIOLOGY; STABILIZATION; STIFFNESS;

SHEEP OSTEOTOMY HEALING; TWO-PLANE EXTERNAL FIXATION;

BIOMECHANICS;

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

EID: 0036312348     PISSN: 02680033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-0033(02)00039-6     Document Type: Article

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