Absorbable implants in surgical correction of a capitellar malunion in an 11-year-old: A case report

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 66-69

  Bilić, Ranko ^a   Kolundžić, Robert ^a   Antičević, Darko ^a  

^a KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Absorbable implants; Capitellum humeri; Child; Corrective osteotomy; Malunited fracture

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ARM EXERCISE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTRACTURE; ELBOW DISLOCATION; ELBOW RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; IMPLANT; METAL IMPLANTATION; OSTEOTOMY; PAIN; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPLINT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; CHILD; DISLOCATION; ELBOW; INJURY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ABSORBABLE IMPLANTS; CHILD; DISLOCATIONS; ELBOW JOINT; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, MALUNITED; HUMANS; OSTEOTOMY; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 33646847953     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.bot.0000161541.14103.67     Document Type: Article

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