Complications after Pi Plate osteosynthesis

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 153-158

  Sánchez, Tomás ^a   Jakubietz, Michael ^a   Jakubietz, R ^a   Mayer, Jochen ^a   Beutel, Florenz K ^a   Grünert, Jorg ^a  

^a Kantonsspital St Gallen ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS FRACTURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDON RUPTURE;

FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RADIUS FRACTURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RUPTURE; STEEL; TENDON INJURIES; TENDONS;

EID: 21744459232     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000169713.49004.7B     Document Type: Article

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