Management of comminuted fractures of the distal radius in the adult: Conservative or surgical?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 353, Issue , 1998, Pages 53-62

  Rodríguez Merchán, E Carlos ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^b Capitan Blanco Argibay 21 G 3A   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHRODESIS; ARTHROPLASTY; BONE GRAFT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOTOMY; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS FRACTURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0141958483     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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