Metacarpal fractures: Treatment indications and options. Results of a multicenter study;Frakturen der Mittelhand Indikationen und Behandlungsoptionen

Chirurg

Volumn 74, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1018-1025

  Kuntscher M V ^a   Schafer D J ^b,c   Germann, G ^a   Siebert, H R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d Klin Unfall Hand W   (Germany)

Author keywords

Metacarpal fracture; Operative conservative therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HUMAN; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; KIRSCHNER WIRE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METACARPAL BONE; METACARPAL BONE FRACTURE; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BONE PLATES; BONE WIRES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; METACARPUS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 10744232579     PISSN: 00094722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00104-003-0734-3     Document Type: Article

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