Complications associated with the posterolateral approach for pilon fractures

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 104-107

  Bhattacharyya, Timothy ^a   Crichlow, Renn ^a   Gobezie, Ruben ^a   Kim, Edward ^a   Vrahas, Mark S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; OPEN FRACTURE; OPEN REDUCTION; POSTEROLATERAL SURGICAL APPROACH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTTRAUMATIC ARTHROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TALUS; TIBIA; TIBIA FRACTURE; TIBIAL PILON FRACTURE; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND INFECTION; ARTHRITIS; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TIME; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, OPEN; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33744471693     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.bot.0000201084.48037.5d     Document Type: Article

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