Neurovascular complications and functional outcome in displaced supracondylar fractures of the humerus in children

Injury

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 267-273

  Gosens, Taco ^a   Bongers, Karst J ^b  

^a Sittard Geleen Heerlen   (Netherlands)

^b Sophia Hospital   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CHILD; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMERUS SUPRACONDYLAR FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE GRAFT; NERVE INJURY; NERVE PARALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OPEN REDUCTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURAL NERVE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ARM; BONE WIRES; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; INFANT; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA, NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 0037401151     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(02)00312-1     Document Type: Article

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