Minimally displaced colles' fractures: A prospective randomized trial of treatment with a wrist splint or a plaster cast

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 28 B, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 50-53

  O'Connor, Damian ^a   Mullett, H ^a   Doyle, M ^a   Mofidi, A ^a   Kutty, S ^a   O'Sullivan, M ^a  

^a Merlin Park University Hospital   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLLES FRACTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBITAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; FEMALE; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PLASTER CAST; POSTTRAUMATIC OSTEOPOROSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RADIUS FRACTURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPLINT; WRIST;

EID: 0037318413     PISSN: 02667681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1054/jhsb.2002.0864     Document Type: Article

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