Brain injury-related heterotopic bone formation: Treatment strategy and results

American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 670-674

  Melamed, E ^a   Robinson, Dror ^a   Halperin, N ^a   Wallach, N ^a   Keren, O ^a   Groswasser, Z ^a  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Brain Injury; Coma; Heterotopic Bone; Surgical Excision

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BONE; NEUROLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT;

PERSONAL HYGIENE;

BRAIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; BRAIN INJURY; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELBOW DISEASE; FEMALE; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HIP DISEASE; HUMAN; HYGIENE; JOINT CONTRACTURE; JOINT MOBILITY; KNEE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; NEUROTRAUMATOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; HIP JOINT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSSIFICATION, HETEROTOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036729436     PISSN: 08949115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002060-200209000-00006     Document Type: Article

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