Calcaneus fractures: Facts, controversies and recent developments

Injury

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 443-461

  Rammelt, Stefan ^a   Zwipp, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcaneal malunion; Calcaneus fracture; Internal fixation; Open fractures; Percutaneous fixation; Subtalar arthroscopy

Indexed keywords

ARTHRODESIS; BODY MASS; BONE PLATE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE SCREW; CALCANEUS FRACTURE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPEN FRACTURE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

BIOMECHANICS; BONE PLATES; CALCANEUS; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1842815890     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2003.10.006     Document Type: Review

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