Hook of hamate fractures: Critical evaluation of different therapeutic procedures

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 115, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 488-497

  Scheufler, Oliver ^a   Andresen, Reimer ^b   Radmer, Sebastian ^b   Erdmann, Detlev ^b   Exner, Klaus ^b   Germann, Günter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EXCISION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRIP STRENGTH; HAMATE HOOK FRACTURE; HAMULUS OSSIS HAMATI FRACTURE; HAND FRACTURE; HUMAN; MALE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPLINTING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BONE SCREWS; CARPAL BONES; CASTS, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, BONE; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPLINTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 14044272231     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000149480.25248.20     Document Type: Article

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