Scaphoid nonunion: Correction of deformity with bone graft and internal fixation

Atlas of Hand Clinics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 107-116

  Forthman, Christopher ^a   Ring, David ^b   Jupiter, Jesse B ^b  

^a Harvard Comb Orthoped Surg Prog   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PLASTER CAST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SCAPHOID FRACTURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0142123331     PISSN: 10823131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1082-3131(03)00003-7     Document Type: Review

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