Femoral biologic plate fixation

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 450, Issue , 2006, Pages 193-202

  Papakostidis, Costas ^a   Grotz, Martin R W ^a   Papadokostakis, George ^a   Dimitriou, Rozalia ^a   Giannoudis, Peter V ^a,b  

^a ST JAMES S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BONE GRAFT; BONE INFECTION; BONE PLATE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; FEMUR SUBTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPEN FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; FEMUR FRACTURE; METHODOLOGY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BONE PLATES; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; FRACTURES, MALUNITED; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748415464     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000218760.19934.2b     Document Type: Review

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