Displaced comminuted midshaft clavicle fractures: Use of Mennen plate fixation system

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 951-954

  Russo, Raffaele ^a   Visconti, Valeria ^b   Lorini, Salvatore ^a   Lombardi, Luigi Vernaglia ^a  

^a Ospedale dei Pellegrini   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clavicular fractures; Fixation failure; Fixation systems; Mennel plate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; CLAVICLE; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIXATION FAILURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; MALE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; SHOULDER GIRDLE; VASCULARIZATION;

BONE PLATES; CLAVICLE; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HUMANS; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37349045309     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31814549e7     Document Type: Article

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