The effect of traction on compartment pressures during intramedullary nailing of tibial-shaft fractures. A prospective randomised trial

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 186-190

  Kutty, Satish ^a,b   Laing, Alan J ^a   Prasad, C V R ^a   McCabe, John P ^a  

^a Merlin Park University Hospital   (Ireland)

^b Lucan Co   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; TIBIA SHAFT FRACTURE; TRACTION THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TRACTION;

EID: 21544443885     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-005-0651-9     Document Type: Article

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