Locked versus unlocked plating with respect to plate length in an ulna fracture model

Bulletin of the NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-8

  Weiss, David B ^a   Kaar, Scott G ^b   Frankenburg, Elizabeth P ^b   Karunakar, Madhav A ^b  

^a ST JOSEPH MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; BONE STRENGTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OSTEOTOMY; PLATE FIXATION; RIGIDITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ULNA FRACTURE;

BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; CADAVER; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; TENSILE STRENGTH; ULNA FRACTURES;

EID: 40949100776     PISSN: 19369719     EISSN: 19369727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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