Minimally invasive management of scaphoid nonunions

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 445, Issue , 2006, Pages 108-119

  Slade III, Joseph F ^a   Dodds, Seth D ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROSCOPY; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BONE MALFORMATION; BONE REMODELING; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SCAPHOID BONE; SCAPHOID FRACTURE; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; DEBRIDEMENT; FLUOROSCOPY; FRACTURE NONUNION; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY;

ARTHROSCOPY; BONE SCREWS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; DEBRIDEMENT; FLUOROSCOPY; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; SCAPHOID BONE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 33646825960     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000205886.66081.9d     Document Type: Conference Paper

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