Case reports: The split flexor carpi ulnaris as a local muscle flap

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 455, Issue , 2007, Pages 262-266

  Lingaraj, Krishna ^a   Lim, Aymeric Y T ^a,b   Puhaindran, Mark E ^a   Kumar, Prem V ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; OLECRANON FRACTURE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOUND INFECTION; ACTION POTENTIAL; BONE PLATE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOREARM; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; INJURY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; ULNA; WRIST;

ACTION POTENTIALS; BONE PLATES; ELBOW; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOREARM; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, BONE; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SURGICAL FLAPS; ULNA; WRIST JOINT;

EID: 33846847763     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000238780.19692.5f     Document Type: Article

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