Volar Plating of Distal Radius Fractures

Atlas of Hand Clinics

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 137-148

  Badia, Alejandro ^a   Touhami, Amel ^a  

^a Miami Hand Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; BONE GRAFT; BONE PLATE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW UP; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; JOINT FRACTURE; LIGAMENT INJURY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIUS FRACTURE; REVIEW; SPLINTING; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; WEIGHT BEARING; WIRE FIXATION; WOUND CLOSURE;

EID: 33750315402     PISSN: 10823131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahc.2006.07.001     Document Type: Review

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