Does partial weight bearing unload a healing bone in external ring fixation?

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 388, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 298-304

  Duda, Georg N ^a   Bartmeyer, Barbara ^a   Sporrer, Simon ^a   Taylor, Wiliam R ^a   Raschke, Michael ^a   Haas, Norbert P ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bone healing; External fixation; Interfragmentary movement; Musculo skeletal recovery; Partial weight bearing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDING; TIBIA OSTEOTOMY; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADULT; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OSTEOTOMY; TIBIA; TIBIAL FRACTURES; WEIGHT-BEARING; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0242402138     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-003-0386-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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