Antegrade interlocking nailing of humeral shaft fractures

Journal of Orthopaedic Science

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 247-252

  Petsatodes, George ^a,b   Karataglis, Dimitrios ^a   Papadopoulos, Pericles ^a   Christoforides, John ^a   Gigis, John ^a   Pournaras, John ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antegrade locked nailing; Humeral shaft fractures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INTERLOCKING NAIL; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 3042544491     PISSN: 09492658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00776-004-0780-9     Document Type: Article

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