Clinical and functional results after floating shoulder injuries

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 595-602

  Labler, Ludwig ^a   Platz, Andreas ^a   Weishaupt, Dominik ^a   Trentz, Otmar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clavicular fracture; Floating shoulder; Scapular neck fracture; Unstable shoulder girdle

Indexed keywords

ACROMIOCLAVICULAR JOINT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARM INJURY; ARTICLE; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FEMALE; FLOATING SHOULDER; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; JOINT MOBILITY; JOINT STABILITY; MALE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAPULA; SHOULDER INJURY; SHOULDER RADIOGRAPHY; STERNOCLAVICULAR JOINT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CLAVICLE; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK INJURIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCAPULA; SHOULDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4744368105     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000105883.79994.AB     Document Type: Article

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