Avulsion fractures from the base of phalanges of the fingers

Techniques in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 157-161

  Bekler, Halil ^a,b   Gokce, Alper ^a   Beyzadeoglu, Tahsin ^a  

^a YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Avulsion fracture; Fracture; Osteosynthesis; Phalanx

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPATHY; AVULSION FRACTURE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FINGER FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE REDUCTION; FRACTURE TREATMENT; GAMEKEEPER THUMB; HAND SURGERY; HUMAN; JOINT INSTABILITY; LIGAMENT; METACARPOPHALANGEAL JOINT; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; OSTEOSYNTHESIS MATERIAL; PHALANX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTTRAUMATIC ARTHROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL INTERPHALANGEAL JOINT; REVIEW; THUMB INJURY;

BONE WIRES; FINGER INJURIES; FINGER PHALANGES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 33748773371     PISSN: 10893393     EISSN: 15316572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.bth.0000228354.14141.a5     Document Type: Review

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