Radial head fractures: Repair, excise, or replace?

Current Opinion in Orthopaedics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 315-322

  Carroll, Raymond M ^a   Osgood, Greg ^a   Blaine, Theodore A ^a  

^a Center for Shoulder Elbow and Sports Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BONE RESECTION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; JOINT PROSTHESIS; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS HEAD FRACTURE; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0036319396     PISSN: 10419918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001433-200208000-00016     Document Type: Review

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