Fracture fixation in the mutilated hand

Hand Clinics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 51-61

  Freeland, Alan E ^a   Lineaweaver, William C ^a   Lindley, Sheila G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; BONE PLATE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FINGER AMPUTATION; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; HAND FRACTURE; HAND FUNCTION; HAND INJURY; HAND SURGERY; HUMAN; KIRSCHNER WIRE; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; BONE PLATES; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; BONE WIRES; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, BONE; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0345074121     PISSN: 07490712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-0712(02)00057-4     Document Type: Review

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