Corrective osteotomies in malunions of the distal radius: Do we get what we planned?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 450, Issue , 2006, Pages 179-185

  Campe, Arndt Von ^a   Nagy, Ladislav ^a   Arbab, Darius ^a   Dumont, Charles E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MALE; OSTEOTOMY; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIUS FRACTURE; ULNA; ADOLESCENT; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CONVALESCENCE; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, MALUNITED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOTOMY; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RADIUS FRACTURES; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748437228     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000223994.79894.17     Document Type: Article

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