Mechanical Comparison of 3 Different Clamp and 2 Different Rod Types of a New Veterinary Internal Fixation System, 4.5/5.5-mm VetFix

Veterinary Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 431-438

  Haerdi, Christina ^b   Dalla Costa, Riccardo ^b   Auer, Joerg A ^b   Linke, Berend ^b   Steiner, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLAMP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICE; EVALUATION; FORCE; IN VITRO STUDY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWITZERLAND; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BONE SCREW; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FRACTURE; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS;

ANIMALS; BONE SCREWS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0242380283     PISSN: 01613499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jvet.2003.50049     Document Type: Article

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