Treatment of pilon fractures using the Ilizarov technique: Case reports and review of the literature

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 176-178

  Rose, R E C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; CONTAMINATION; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HUMAN; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; METAPHYSIS; OPEN FRACTURE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIBIAL FRACTURES;

EID: 0036758803     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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