The rate of instrument breakage during orthopaedic procedures

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 185-187

  Price, M V ^a   Molloy, S ^a,b   Solan, M C ^a   Sutton, A ^a   Ricketts, D M ^a  

^a PRINCESS ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRILL; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INSTRUMENT BREAKAGE; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OPEN REDUCTION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; TRAUMATOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 0036942208     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-002-0344-6     Document Type: Article

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