Primary external fixation versus plaster immobilization of the intra-articular unstable distal radial fracture in the elderly

Aktuelle Traumatologie

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 64-70

  Hegeman, J H ^a,d   Oskam, J ^b   Van Der Palen, J ^c   Ten Duis, H J ^a   Vierhout, P A M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MEDISCH SPECTRUM TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c RIJNLAND HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME TYPE I; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUPUYTREN CONTRACTURE; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; PLASTER CAST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIUS FRACTURE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WRIST; WRIST RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 2642585586     PISSN: 00446173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-815749     Document Type: Article

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