Correction of Rockerbottom Deformity Using the Butt Frame

Operative Techniques in Orthopaedics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 23-31

  Belczyk, Ronald J ^a   Wukich, Dane K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Charcot; diabetes; foot and ankle; Ilizarov; midfoot deformity; neuropathic arthropathy; Paley; rockerbottom; Taylor Spatial Frame; TSF

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; DIABETIC FOOT; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FOOT MALFORMATION; HUMAN; JOINT DISLOCATION; NEUROPATHIC JOINT DISEASE; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PES EQUINUS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCKERBOTTOM DEFORMITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TARSAL JOINT; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; WOUND DRESSING;

EID: 33646170088     PISSN: 10486666     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.oto.2006.02.005     Document Type: Article

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