Salter-harris type iii and iv medial malleolar fractures: Growth arrest: Is it a fate? a retrospective study of 48 cases with open reduction

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 652-655

  Cottalorda, Jérôme ^a   Béranger, Vincent ^b   Louahem, Djamel ^c   Camilleri, Jean Philippe ^a   Launay, Franck ^b   Diméglio, Alain ^c   Bourelle, Sophie ^a   Jouve, Jean Luc ^b   Bollini, Gérard ^b  

^a HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

^b TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Ankle; Child; Physeal injury; Salter Harris III fracture; Salter Harris IV fracture

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANKLE PAIN; ANKLE STIFFNESS; ARTHROTOMY; ARTICLE; BONE MATURATION; BONE SCREW; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIPHYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH DISORDER; HEALING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; JOINT STIFFNESS; LEG DISEASE; LIMP; MALE; MALLEOLUS FRACTURE; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALTER HARRIS TYPE III MEDIAL MALLEOLAR FRACTURE; SALTER HARRIS TYPE IV MEDIAL MALLEOLAR FRACTURE; SNAPPING; VARUS DEFORMITY; WOUND HEALING; AGE DETERMINATION; ANKLE; ANKLE INJURY; FRACTURE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; TIBIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; ANKLE INJURIES; ANKLE JOINT; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, CLOSED; HUMANS; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIBIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53749097820     PISSN: 02716798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BPO.0b013e318182f74c     Document Type: Article

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