Radio-Radial External Fixation in the Treatment of Distal Radius Fractures Allows for Free Wrist Motion;Der Radio-Radiale Fixateur am Handgelenkeine Option zur Frühfunktionellen Behandlung der Distalen Radiusfraktur

Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie

Volumn 128, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1014-1019

  Gradl, Georg ^a   Gierer, P ^a   Ewert, A ^a   Beck, M ^a   Mittlmeier, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distal radius; External fixation; Extra articular; Fracture; Functional treatment; Radio radial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; IMMOBILIZATION; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; RADIUS FRACTURE; RELIABILITY; SAFETY; WRIST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE WIRES; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIUS FRACTURES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; WRIST INJURIES;

EID: 1642517054     PISSN: 0044409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-44837     Document Type: Article

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