Nonunion of Distal Radius Fractures

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 419, Issue , 2004, Pages 51-56

  Prommersberger, Karl Josef ^a,d   Fernandez, Diego L ^b,c  

^a Rhon Klinikum   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Lindenhofspital   (Switzerland)

^d Klinik fur Handchirurgie Bad Neustadt   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OSTEOTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS FRACTURE; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 1442304681     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003086-200402000-00009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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