Detrimental effects of overstuffing or understuffing with a radial head replacement in the medial collateral-ligament deficient elbow

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2629-2635

  Van Glabbeek, F ^a,b   Van Riet, R P ^a   Baumfeld, J A ^a   Neale, P G ^a   O'Driscoll, S W ^a   Morrey, B F ^a   An, K N ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARM; ARM PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; CADAVER; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; ELBOW; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMERUS HEAD; IMPLANTATION; JOINT LAXITY; JOINT MOBILITY; JOINT PRESSURE; KINEMATICS; KNEE LIGAMENT; KNEE LIGAMENT INJURY; LEG LENGTHENING; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; MALE; ORIENTATION; POSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS; RADIUS HEAD FRACTURE; SUBSTITUTION THERAPY; ULNA; VALGUS DEFORMITY; VARUS DEFORMITY;

EID: 10344234202     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/00004623-200412000-00007     Document Type: Article

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