Long-term results of various therapy concepts in severe pilon fractures

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 313-320

  Koulouvaris, Panagiotis ^a   Stafylas, Kosmas ^b   Mitsionis, Gregory ^b   Vekris, Marios ^b   Mavrodontidis, Alexandros ^b   Xenakis, Theodore ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

External fixation; Hybrid fixation; Internal fixation; Pilon

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTHROTOMY; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; BONE MALFORMATION; BONE PLATE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE INFECTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTAL TIBIA FRACTURE; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT LIMITATION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC ARTHROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE JOINT; ARTHRITIS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, CLOSED; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIBIAL FRACTURES;

EID: 34250685008     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-007-0306-y     Document Type: Article

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