Management of clavicle fractures

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 275-280

  Pujalte, George Guntur A ^a   Housner, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ATHLETE; CLAVICLE FRACTURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLATE FIXATION; PSEUDARTHROSIS; REVIEW; SPORT; SPORT INJURY; X RAY FILM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLAVICLE; FRACTURE; HISTOLOGY; INJURY; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; CLAVICLE; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58149191922     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e3181873046     Document Type: Review

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