Chapter 2: Safe wire and half pin placement in tibia fractures

Techniques in Orthopaedics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-11

  Hutson Jr , James J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Orthopaedics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fractures; Ilizarov fixator; Safe wire; Tibia

Indexed keywords

ANKLE; ARTICLE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; FOOT MALFORMATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; JOINT CAPSULE; KNEE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA FRACTURE; TIBIA PLATEAU PILON FRACTURE; WIRE FIXATION;

EID: 0036523509     PISSN: 08859698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00013611-200203000-00002     Document Type: Article

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