Rehabilitation for proximal phalangeal fractures

Journal of Hand Therapy

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 129-142

  Freeland, Alan E ^a   Hardy, Maureen A ^b   Singletary, Shannon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b St Dominic Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BONE DEFORMATION; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVALUATION; EXERCISE; FINGER; FINGER FRACTURE; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; HAND FUNCTION; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INCISION; JOINT CONTRACTURE; JOINT MOBILITY; KIRSCHNER WIRE; OPEN FRACTURE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATIENT CARE; PHALANX; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLASTER CAST; POSTTRAUMATIC COMPLICATION; SPLINTING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; WRIST;

EID: 0038555685     PISSN: 08941130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-1130(03)80008-X     Document Type: Article

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