The healing forearm fracture: A matched comparison of forearm refractures

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 743-747

  Baitner, Avi C ^a   Perry, Andrew ^b   Lalonde, Francois D ^c   Bastrom, Tracey P ^d   Pawelek, Jeff ^d   Newton, Peter O ^b,d,e  

^a MIAMI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY   (United States)

^d RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Both bone; Children; Fracture; Radius; Refracture; Ulna

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE FRAGILITY; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CAST APPLICATION; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOREARM FRACTURE; FOREARM REFRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIUS FRACTURE; RISK FACTOR; ULNA FRACTURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; RADIUS FRACTURES; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULNA FRACTURES;

EID: 34548790793     PISSN: 02716798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BPO.0b013e318142568c     Document Type: Article

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