Complications encountered while using thin-wire-hybrid-external fixation modular frames for fracture fixation: A retrospective clinical analysis and possible support for "Damage Control Orthopaedic Surgery"

Injury

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 590-598

  Lerner, A ^a   Chezar, A ^a   Haddad, M ^a   Kaufman, H ^a   Rozen, N ^a   Stein, H ^b  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Complications; Damage Control Orthopaedic Surgery; External fixation; Fracture healing; Fracture surgery; Minimal invasive surgery

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL FACTOR; ENOXAPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEVICE; FEMUR SHAFT FRACTURE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; HUMERUS; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; LONG BONE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPEN REDUCTION; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; OSSIFICATION; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL TIBIA FRACTURE; TIBIA; WIRE FIXATION;

EID: 17044438194     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2004.08.035     Document Type: Article

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