Fixation of posterior malleolar fractures provides greater syndesmotic stability

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 447, Issue , 2006, Pages 165-171

  Gardner, Michael J ^a,b   Brodsky, Adam ^a   Briggs, Stephen M ^a   Nielson, Jason H ^a   Lorich, Dean G ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANKLE FRACTURE; ANKLE INJURY; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CADAVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG; LIGAMENT; LIGAMENT RUPTURE; MALE; MALLEOLUS FRACTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; TIBIOFIBULAR LIGAMENT; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; JOINT INSTABILITY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TARSAL BONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE INJURIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; JOINT INSTABILITY; LIGAMENTS, ARTICULAR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TARSAL BONES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746079288     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000203489.21206.a9     Document Type: Article

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