Treatment of humeral shaft nonunions: Nailing versus plating

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 92-95

  Martínez, Ángel A ^a,b   Cuenca, Jorge ^a   Herrera, Antonio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MIGUEL SERVET   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Humeral shaft nonunion; Nailing; Plating

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; BONE PLATE; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELBOW; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; NERVE PARALYSIS; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PLATE FIXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; SHOULDER GIRDLE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NAILS; BONE PLATES; ELBOW JOINT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOULDER JOINT;

EID: 12144287762     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-003-0608-7     Document Type: Article

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