Ilizarov frame fixation without bone graft for atrophic humeral shaft nonunion: 28 Patients with a minimum 2-year follow-up

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 549-556

  Tomić, Slavko ^a   Bumbaširević, Marko ^b   Lešić, Aleksandar ^b   Mitković, Milorad ^c   Atkinson, Henry Dushan E ^d,e  

^a Institute for Orthopaedic Surgery Banjica   (Yugoslavia)

^b CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^c Clinical Centre

^d ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atrophic nonunion; Humerus; Ilizarov frame

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; DEVICE; ELBOW; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HUMERUS; HUMERUS FRACTURE; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; INFECTION; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; JOINT FUNCTION; MALE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIAL NERVE PALSY; RADIOGRAPHY; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SHOULDER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATROPHY; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 34548418062     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BOT.0b013e31814612c8     Document Type: Review

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