Treatment of proximal tibia fractures using the Less Invasive Stabilization System: Surgical experience and early clinical results in 77 fractures

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 528-535

  Cole, Peter A ^a   Zlowodzki, Michael ^b   Kregor, Philip J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Less invasive; Less Invasive Stabilization System; Locked plate; Minimally invasive; Submuscular plating; Tibia fracture

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; GENTAMICIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FIXATION FAILURE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN FRACTURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PERONEUS NERVE PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROXIMAL TIBIA FRACTURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEROMA; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT PLANNING; VALGUS DEFORMITY; VARUS DEFORMITY; WEIGHT BEARING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4644371690     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005131-200409000-00008     Document Type: Article

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