Two unreported modes of interlocking nail failure: Breakout and screw bending

Veterinary and Comparative Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 228-232

  Suber, Jonathan T ^a,b   Basinger, R R ^a   Keller, W G ^a  

^a South Carolina Surgical Referral Service   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixation failure; Interlocking nails

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCELLOUS BONE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL BONE; DISEASE COURSE; DOG; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FIXATION FAILURE; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INTERLOCKING NAIL; MALE; METAPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SKELETON; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; FELIS CATUS;

EID: 0036980648     PISSN: 09320814     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1632744     Document Type: Article

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