Modification of the extension block Kirschner wire technique for mallet fractures

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 404, Issue , 2002, Pages 284-290

  Tetik, Cihangir ^a   Gudemez, Eftal ^a  

^a NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AVULSION FRACTURE; BONE PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVICE INFECTION; DISTAL PHALANX; FEMALE; FINGER FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; JOINT LIMITATION; JOINT SURGERY; KIRSCHNER WIRE; MALE; MALLET FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SUBLUXATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WIRE FIXATION;

EID: 0036849842     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-200211000-00043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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