A review of K-wire related complications in the emergency management of paediatric upper extremity trauma

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 252-258

  Sharma, Himanshu ^a,c   Taylor, G R ^a   Clarke, N M P ^b  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complications; Fixation; K wires; Paediatric fractures

Indexed keywords

ARM FRACTURE; ARM INJURY; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE DURATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HAND FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; KIRSCHNER WIRE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METACARPAL BONE FRACTURE; NERVE LESION; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROPATHY; OSTEOMYELITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIUS FRACTURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SKIN SCAR; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENDINITIS; ULNA FRACTURE; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND HEALING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ARM INJURIES; BONE NAILS; BONE WIRES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 34147095520     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1308/003588407X155482     Document Type: Review

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