Do type B malleolar fractures need a positioning screw?

Injury

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 729-734

  Heim, D ^a   Schmidlin, V ^a   Ziviello, O ^a  

^a Department of Surgery   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HUMAN; JOINT DISLOCATION; JOINT INSTABILITY; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; MALLEOLUS FRACTURE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE INJURIES; ANKLE JOINT; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036789219     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(01)00199-1     Document Type: Article

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