Complications after plate fixation of phalangeal fractures

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 841-843

  Kurzen, Peter ^a   Fusetti, Cesare ^a   Bonaccio, Mario ^a   Nagy, Ladislav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Complications; Phalangeal fracture; Plate fixation; Range of motion (ROM); Stiffness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; HAND FRACTURE; HAND RADIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFECTION; JOINT MOBILITY; JOINT STABILITY; JOINT STIFFNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MOBILIZATION; OCCUPATION; OPEN REDUCTION; PHALANX FRACTURE; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; RANGE OF MOTION; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; CLASSIFICATION; FINGER PHALANX; FRACTURE; INJURY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; FEMALE; FINGER PHALANGES; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33646472430     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000214887.31745.c4     Document Type: Review

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