Nonunions and malunions after pelvic fractures: Why they occur and what can be done?

Injury

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 489-496

  Oransky, Michel ^a   Tortora, Mauro ^a  

^a SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Deformity; Heterometry; Malunion; Multistaged correction; Nonunion; Osteotomy; Pain; Pelvis; Sacrum; Sitting imbalance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CERCLAGE; COMPRESSION; DISABILITY; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; ILIAC BONE; JOINT DISLOCATION; LUMBAR SPINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN REDUCTION; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PELVIS FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBIC SYMPHYSIS DIASTASIS; SACRUM; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; WALKING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; FRACTURES, MALUNITED; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC BONES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 34147113204     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2007.01.019     Document Type: Article

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