Late lower extremity fractures in patients with paraplegia

Injury

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 583-586

  Martínez, Ángel A ^a   Cuenca, Jorge ^a   Herrera, Antonio ^a   Domingo, Javier ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MIGUEL SERVET   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEMUR INTERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FEMUR SHAFT FRACTURE; FEMUR SUBTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; HUMERUS SUPRACONDYLAR FRACTURE; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; LEG FRACTURE; MALE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PARAPLEGIA; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL TIBIA FRACTURE; TIBIA SHAFT FRACTURE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARAPLEGIA;

EID: 0036742426     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(02)00163-8     Document Type: Article

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