Surgical stabilization of a rib fracture using an angle stable plate

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1159-1160

  Beelen, Roel ^a,b   Rumbaut, Jan ^a   De Geest, Raphaël ^a  

^a OLV Hospital   (Belgium)

^b OLV HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RIB FRACTURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACIC CAVITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; BONE PLATES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RIB FRACTURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36049027991     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000222536.91745.b4     Document Type: Article

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