Unstable pediatric sacral fracture with bone loss caused by a high-energy gunshot injury

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Schildhauer, Thomas A ^a   Bellabarba, Carlo ^b   Selznick, Hugh S ^c   McRoberts, Drew ^d   Vedder, Nicholas B ^b   Chapman, Jens R ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Pocatello Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Institute   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; GUNSHOT INJURY; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PELVIS FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACROILIAC JOINT; SACRUM; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGMOID;

BONE SCREWS; CHILD; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PELVIC BONES; RECTUM; SACRUM; SPINAL FRACTURES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 37349109642     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000246879.13468.32     Document Type: Article

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