Acute shortening: Modular treatment modality for severe combined bone and soft tissue loss of the extremities

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 603-608

  Lerner, Alexander ^a   Fodor, Lucian ^a   Soudry, Michael ^a   Peled, Isaac J ^a   Herer, Dori ^a   Ullmann, Yehuda ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acute shortening; Angulation; Distraction; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; BONE INJURY; BONE REGENERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; DEVICE INFECTION; DONOR SITE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; LEG FRACTURE; LEG LENGTHENING; LIMB INJURY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; WEIGHT BEARING; WOUND CLOSURE;

ADULT; ARM INJURIES; BONE AND BONES; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; LEG INJURIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOGENESIS, DISTRACTION; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES;

EID: 4744367345     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000087888.01738.35     Document Type: Article

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