Repair of a resistant tibial non-union with a recombinant bone morphogenetic protien-7 (rh-BMP-7) [2]

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 320-321

  Pecina, M ^a   Haspl, M ^a   Jelic, M ^a   Vukicevic, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AUTOLOGOUS BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; CANCELLOUS BONE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LETTER; MUSCLE GRAFT; ORTHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN GRAFT; SYMPTOM; TIBIA FRACTURE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEINS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0242299156     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-003-0475-4     Document Type: Letter

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