Vertically unstable sacral fractures with neurological insult: Outcomes of surgical decompression and reconstruction plate internal fixation

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 261-267

  Ayoub, Mostafa A ^a  

^a TANTA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BONE REMODELING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; CONVALESCENCE; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; MALE; MOBILIZATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDESTRIAN; PELVIS FRACTURE; PLATE FIXATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SACRUM FRACTURE; SCORING SYSTEM; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT DISEASE;

ADULT; BONE PLATES; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; LUMBOSACRAL PLEXUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSSIFICATION, HETEROTOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SACRUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 59449084705     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-007-0468-9     Document Type: Article

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