A new locking plate for unstable fractures of the proximal humerus

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 430, Issue , 2005, Pages 176-181

  Fankhauser, Florian ^a   Boldin, Christian ^a   Schippinger, Gert ^a   Haunschmid, Christian ^a   Szyszkowitz, Rudolf ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; BONE PLATE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; IMPLANT; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 11844254362     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000137554.91189.a9     Document Type: Article

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