Plate removal in traumatic facial fractures: 13-year practice review

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 608-611

  Nagase, Daniel Y ^a,b   Courtemanche, Douglas J ^a   Peters, Daniel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cold intolerance; Facial fracture; Facial trauma; Hardware exposure; Infection; Le forte; Mandibular fracture; Maxillary fracture; Orbital fracture; Plate removal; Rigid fixation; Titanium plate; Zygomatic fracture

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE FRACTURE; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

BONE PLATES; DEVICE REMOVAL; FACIAL BONES; FACIAL PAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBULAR FRACTURES; ORBITAL FRACTURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL FRACTURES; TITANIUM; ZYGOMA;

EID: 29244464692     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000189666.13860.c0     Document Type: Review

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