Slippage between screwdriver and bone screw

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 404, Issue , 2002, Pages 368-372

  Behring, Jon K ^a   Gjerdet, Nils R ^a   Mølster, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BONE SCREW; CONFERENCE PAPER; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TORQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0036848524     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-200211000-00054     Document Type: Conference Paper

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