Stiffness characteristics of composite hybrid external fixators

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 405, Issue , 2002, Pages 267-276

  Windhagen, Henning ^a,d   Glöckner, Roland ^b   Bail, Hermann ^c   Kolbeck, Stefan ^c   Raschke, Michael ^c  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b Asklepios Klinik   (Germany)

^c HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d Annastift   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVICE; DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; HYBRID; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RIGIDITY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SKIN PENETRATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TORSION;

EID: 0036913552     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-200212000-00034     Document Type: Article

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