Unilateral hinged external fixator of the elbow in complex elbow injuries

Injury

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1158-1166

  Stavlas, P ^a,b   Gliatis, J ^a   Polyzois, V ^a   Polyzois, D ^a  

^a KAT HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b Dasos Chaidari ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Elbow dislocation; Elbow fracture dislocation; Hinged elbow external fixation; Intercondylar fracture; Supracondylar fracture

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE INFECTION; ELBOW DISLOCATION; ELBOW FLEXION; ELBOW FRACTURE; ELBOW INJURY; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FEMALE; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; HUMAN; HUMERUS SUPRACONDYLAR FRACTURE; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; JOINT INSTABILITY; JOINT MOBILITY; JOINT STABILITY; MALE; NERVE PARALYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL NERVE; RADIUS FRACTURE; ROTATION; SAFETY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SOFT TISSUE; SOFT TISSUE DEFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNA FRACTURE;

ADULT; AGED; DISLOCATIONS; ELBOW JOINT; EXTERNAL FIXATORS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 5444226563     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2003.09.002     Document Type: Article

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