Snowboarder's talus fracture: Treatment outcome of 20 cases after 3.5 years

American Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 871-880

  Valderrabano, Victor ^a,b,c   Perren, Thomas ^a   Ryf, Christian ^a   Rillmann, Paavo ^a   Hintermann, Beat ^b  

^a Hospital of Davos   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c Spital Davos   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fracture; Lateral process of the talus (LPT); Snowboarding; Sport injury; Talus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALGORITHM; ANKLE RADIOGRAPHY; ARTHROTOMY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; KIRSCHNER WIRE; MALE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPORT INJURY; TALUS FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANKLE INJURIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIING; TALUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 19044364786     PISSN: 03635465     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0363546504271001     Document Type: Article

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