The management of wrist injuries: An international perspective

Injury

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1049-1056

  Garcia Elias, Marc ^a   Folgar, Miguel Ángel Vidal ^b  

^a INSTITUT KAPLAN   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL TORRECÁRDENAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clinical examination of the wrist; Closed reduction; Epidemiology of hand injury; External fixation; Fracture of the distal radius; Hand therapy; Non operative treatment; Osteoporosis; Osteosynthesis of the wrist; Scaphoid fracture; Wrist trauma

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTHROSCOPY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HAND FUNCTION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JOINT STABILITY; LONGEVITY; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OSTEOPOROSIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS; REGIONALIZATION; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TRAINING; TRAUMATOLOGY; WRIST INJURY;

FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HAND INJURIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; WRIST INJURIES;

EID: 33750975623     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2006.07.025     Document Type: Article

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