Posterior malleolar fracture is often associated with spiral tibial diaphyseal fracture: A retrospective study

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1058-1060

  Kukkonen, Juha ^a   Heikkilä, Jouni T ^b   Kyyrönen, Timo ^a   Mattila, Kimmo ^a   Gullichsen, Eero ^a  

^a TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b Mehilainen Oy   (Finland)

Author keywords

Posterior malleolus; Tibial shaft fracture

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANKLE RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALLEOLUS FRACTURE; POSTERIOR MALLEOLUS FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIBIA SHAFT FRACTURE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANKLE INJURIES; BONE SCREWS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURES, CLOSED; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INCIDENCE; JOINT LOOSE BODIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; TIBIAL FRACTURES;

EID: 33646874797     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000196700.74272.10     Document Type: Article

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