A comparison of nonoperative and operative treatment of type II distal clavicle fractures

Bulletin: Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 32-39

  Rokito, Andrew S ^a   Zuckerman, Joseph D ^a   Shaari, Jeffrey M ^a   Eisenberg, David P ^a   Cuomo, Frances ^a   Gallagher, Maureen A ^a  

^a NYU HOSPITAL FOR JOINT DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; PATIENT MONITORING; SURGERY;

FRACTURE HEALING;

JOINTS (ANATOMY);

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; OPEN REDUCTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BIOMECHANICS; CLAVICLE; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOTIC DEVICES; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038038993     PISSN: 00185647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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