Distal tibial reconstruction with use of a circular external fixator and an intramedullary nail: Surgical technique

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue SUPPL. 2 PART 2, 2008, Pages 181-194

  Eralp, Levent ^a   Kocaoglu, Mehmet ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKLE ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; BONE DEFECT; BONE REMODELING; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; OSTEOLYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIBIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANKLE; ARTHRODESIS; ARTHROPATHY; BONE DISEASE; BONE NAIL; BONE TUMOR; CHRONIC DISEASE; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; JOINT INSTABILITY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOMYELITIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANKLE JOINT; ARTHRODESIS; BONE DISEASES; BONE NAILS; BONE NEOPLASMS; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HUMANS; JOINT DISEASES; JOINT INSTABILITY; LEG LENGTH INEQUALITY; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; OSTEOMYELITIS; TIBIA;

EID: 53749106005     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.H.00467     Document Type: Article

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