Salvage of humeral shaft nonunion with cortical thinning after failed intramedullary nailing using Ilizarov's technique: A report of seven cases

Injury

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1246-1251

  Flinkkilä, Tapio ^a   Ristiniemi, Jukka ^a   Pajala, Ari ^a   Hämäläinen, Martti ^a  

^a OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; INFECTION; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MALE; PAIN; PATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REOPERATION; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 26444589084     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2005.05.036     Document Type: Article

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