Indirect reduction and bridge plating of supracondylar fractures of the femur

Injury

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 135-140

  Huang, Hsuan Ti ^a   Huang, Peng Ju ^a   Su, Jiing Yuan ^a   Lin, Sen Yuen ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; MALE; OPEN FRACTURE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE PLATES; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0037307354     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(02)00213-9     Document Type: Article

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