Functional evaluation of comminuted intra-articular fractures of the distal humerus (AO type C). Long term results in twenty-six patients

Acta Orthopaedica Belgica

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 123-130

  Tyllianakis, Minos ^a   Panagopoulos, Andreas ^a   Papadopoulos, Andreas X ^a   Kaisidis, Aristotelis ^a   Zouboulis, Panayiotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; FEMALE; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INFECTION; INTRAARTICULAR FRACTURE; KIRSCHNER WIRE; MALE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OSTEOTOMY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REOPERATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; ULNAR NERVE PARALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; BONE WIRES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRIST INJURIES;

EID: 2442495103     PISSN: 00016462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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