Treatment results for open comminuted distal humerus intra-articuler fractures with ilizarov circular external fixator

Military Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 694-697

  Kömürcü, Mahmut ^a   Yanmiş, Ibrahim ^a   Ateşalp, A Sabri ^a   Gür, Ethem ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; METICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARM FRACTURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; MALE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RADIAL NERVE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNAR NERVE; VARUS DEFORMITY;

EID: 0141655128     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/168.9.694     Document Type: Article

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