Management of established Volkmann's contracture of the forearm in children

Hand Clinics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 99-111

  Stevanovic, Milan ^a   Sharpe, Frances ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FASCIOTOMY; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOREARM; HUMAN; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE INJURY; MUSCLE TRANSPLANTATION; NERVE GRAFT; NEUROLYSIS; PAIN; PALLOR; PARALYSIS; PARESTHESIA; PASSIVE MOVEMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PULSE RATE; REVIEW; SPLINTING; VOLKMANN CONTRACTURE;

CHILD; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FOREARM; HUMANS; SPLINTS;

EID: 33644523402     PISSN: 07490712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hcl.2005.12.003     Document Type: Review

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