Three-year results of proximal tibia fractures treated with the LISS

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 445, Issue , 2006, Pages 222-229

  Boldin, Christian ^a   Fankhauser, Florian ^a   Hofer, Herwig Peter ^a   Szyszkowitz, Rudolf ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; KNEE OSTEOARTHRITIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL TIBIA FRACTURE; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; CONVALESCENCE; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIBIA FRACTURE;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIBIAL FRACTURES;

EID: 33646836277     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000203467.58431.a0     Document Type: Article

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