Midshaft clavicular fractures: The role of operative treatment

Orthopedics

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 761-764

  Graves, Matthew L ^a   Geissler, William B ^a   Freeland, Alan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE PLATE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CASE REPORT; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; FOOTBALL; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OPEN FRACTURE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; SPORT INJURY; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

ADOLESCENT; BIOMECHANICS; CLAVICLE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 23844494146     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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