Management of subtrochanteric fractures in skeletally immature adolescents

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 613-619

  Jarvis, James ^a   Davidson, Darin ^a   Letts, Merv ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF EASTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BONE PLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FEMUR SUBTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; LEG INEQUALITY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OPEN REDUCTION; PERONEUS NERVE PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SCHOOL CHILD; SKELETON TRACTION; BONE NAIL; CHILD; FEMUR HEAD NECROSIS; FRACTURE HEALING; GROWTH PLATE; HIP FRACTURE; INJURY; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRACTION THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; BONE NAILS; BONE PLATES; CHILD; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD NECROSIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; GROWTH PLATE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; MALE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRACTION;

EID: 33645550995     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000197606.63124.9e     Document Type: Article

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