Avulsion fractures of the tibial tuberosity in adolescent athletes treated by internal fixation and tension band wiring

Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 271-276

  Nikiforidis, Panayiotis A ^a   Babis, George C ^a   Triantafillopoulos, Ioannis K ^a   Themistocleous, George S ^a   Nikolopoulos, Konstantinos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Avulsion fracture; Internal fixation; Tension band wiring; Tibial tuberosity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; AVULSION FRACTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA TUBEROSITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BONE SCREW; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; INJURY SCALE; INSTRUMENTATION; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; KIRSCHNER WIRE; KNEE INJURY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPORT INJURY; TIBIA FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ATHLETIC INJURIES; BONE SCREWS; BONE WIRES; COHORT STUDIES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; KNEE INJURIES; MALE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 16544362645     PISSN: 09422056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00167-003-0417-0     Document Type: Article

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