Percutaneous Fixation of Proximal Humerus Fractures

Orthopedic Clinics of North America

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 405-416

  Magovern, Brian ^a   Ramsey, Matthew L ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INFECTION; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCAR FORMATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA TUBEROSITY; TREATMENT INDICATION; VALGUS DEFORMITY;

BIOMECHANICS; BONE NAILS; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; FRACTURES, MALUNITED; HUMANS; OSTEONECROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SHOULDER FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 51549087543     PISSN: 00305898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocl.2008.05.005     Document Type: Review

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