The Treatment of Unstable Metacarpal and Phalangeal Shaft Fractures with Flexible Nonlocking and Locking Intramedullary Nails

Hand Clinics

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 279-286

  Orbay, Jorge L ^a   Touhami, Amel ^a  

^a Miami Hand Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMINUTED FRACTURE; FINGER FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; JOINT MOBILITY; METACARPAL BONE FRACTURE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PHALANX SHAFT FRACTURE; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FINGER PHALANGES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; METACARPAL BONES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745812360     PISSN: 07490712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hcl.2006.02.017     Document Type: Review

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