The kinematic importance of radial neck length in radial head replacement

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 336-342

  Van Glabbeek, F ^b   Van Riet, R P ^a   Baumfeld, J A ^a   Neale, P G ^a   O'Driscoll, S W ^a   Morrey, B F ^a   An, K N ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Implant; Kinematics; Radial length

Indexed keywords

CADAVERIC EXPERIMENTS; JOINTS (ANATOMY); KINEMATICS;

ELBOW KINEMATICS; RADIAL HEAD REPLACEMENT; RADIAL NECK LENGTH; ULNA TRACKING;

FRACTURE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CADAVER; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT LAXITY; JOINT MOBILITY; KINEMATICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS HEAD FRACTURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ULNA;

EID: 16844366779     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2004.04.011     Document Type: Article

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