Functional outcome and quality of life of gustilo IIIB open tibial fractures requiring free tissue transfers: A report of eight cases

Microsurgery

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 532-537

  Boku, Terumasa ^a   Yokoyama, Kazuhiko ^b   Nakamura, Koushin ^a   Uchino, Masataka ^a   Suzuki, Takashi ^a   Ohtsuka, Hiroshi ^a   Itoman, Moritoshi ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Machida Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GUSTILLO TYPE IIIB OPEN TIBIA FRACTURE; HEALTH; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; OPEN FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT FORM 36; TIBIA FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 27744521833     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20164     Document Type: Article

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