Intramedullary fixation of tibial shaft fractures using an expandable nail

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 455, Issue , 2007, Pages 234-240

  Ben Galim, Peleg ^a,b   Rosenblatt, Yishai ^a   Parnes, Nata ^a   Dekel, Shmuel ^a   Steinberg, Ely L ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITAL RUNNING COST; HUMAN; INTERLOCKING NAIL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REOPERATION; TIBIA SHAFT FRACTURE; TREATMENT DURATION; BONE NAIL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HOSPITALIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; TIBIA FRACTURE;

BONE NAILS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; TIBIAL FRACTURES;

EID: 33846842371     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000238827.57810.27     Document Type: Article

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