Complex surgical conditions of the hand: Avoiding the pitfalls

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 433, Issue , 2005, Pages 65-71

  McDonald III, Allen P ^a   Lourie, Gary M ^b,c  

^a ATLANTA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Hand and Upper Extremity Center of Georgia   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVULSION INJURY; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVICE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FASCIOTOMY; FINGER FRACTURE; FINGER INJURY; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HAND INJURY; HAND MUSCLE; HAND SURGERY; HUMAN; OPEN REDUCTION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PHALANX; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WRONG SITE SURGERY;

EID: 16844379480     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000159825.48072.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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