Tourniquets may increase postoperative swelling and pain after internal fixation of ankle fractures

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 433, Issue , 2005, Pages 189-194

  Konrad, Gerhard ^a   Markmiller, Max ^a   Lenich, Andreas ^b   Mayr, Edgar ^c   Rüter, Axel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM AUGSBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; GENDER; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN REDUCTION; OPERATION DURATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; POSTOPERATIVE EDEMA; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RANDOMIZATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOURNIQUET;

EID: 16844386313     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000151849.37260.0a     Document Type: Article

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