What is the most effective management of acute fractures of the base of the fifth metatarsal?

Journal of Family Practice

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 713-717

  Vu, Davis ^a   McDiarmid, Todd ^a   Brown, Marcy ^b  

^a Moses Cone Family Medicine Residency Program   (United States)

^b WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAST APPLICATION; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; JONES FRACTURE; METATARSAL BONE; METATARSOPHALANGEAL JOINT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECREATION; REVIEW; STRESS FRACTURE; TREATMENT FAILURE; WEIGHT BEARING; ACUTE DISEASE; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL TRIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FRACTURE HEALING; INJURY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASTER CAST;

ACUTE DISEASE; BONE SCREWS; CASTS, SURGICAL; CLINICAL TRIALS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; METATARSAL BONES; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33750725112     PISSN: 00943509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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