Less is more: Lag screw only fixation of lateral malleolar fractures

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 497-502

  McKenna, Paul B ^a   O'Shea, Kieran ^a   Burke, Tom ^a  

^a Midwestern Regional Hospitals   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBULA MALLEOLUS; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; MALE; MALLEOLUS FRACTURE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATIENT MOBILITY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TARSAL BONES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547138651     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-006-0216-6     Document Type: Article

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