Perkins traction for adult femoral shaft fractures: A report on 53 patients in Sierra Leone

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 697-702

  Gosselin, Richard ^a   Lavaly, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Emergency Hospital   (Sierra Leone)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMUR SHAFT FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIERRA LEONE; TRACTION THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIERRA LEONE; TRACTION;

EID: 35348847807     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-006-0233-5     Document Type: Article

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