Syndesmotic disruption in low fibular fractures associated with deltoid ligament injury

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 409, Issue , 2003, Pages 260-267

  Ebraheim, Nabil A ^a   Elgafy, Hossein ^a   Padanilam, Thomas ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELTOID MUSCLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FIBULA; FRACTURE; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; LIGAMENT INJURY; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SUBLUXATION; SYNDESMOSIS;

EID: 0037387067     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000052935.71325.30     Document Type: Article

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