Open exchange locked nailing in humeral nonunions after intramedullary nailing

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 411, Issue , 2003, Pages 260-268

  Lin, Jinn ^b   Chiang, Hongsen ^b   Hou, Sheng Mou ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM FRACTURE; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELBOW; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; OPEN EXCHANGE LOCKED NAILING; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037566284     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000069898.31220.9e     Document Type: Article

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