Custom made Ilizarov ring fixator for fracture care in morbidly obese patients

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 394, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 393-398

  Seybold, Dominik ^a   Geßmann, Jan ^a   Özokyay, Levent ^a   Frangen, Thomas ^a   Muhr, Gert ^a   Graf, Markus ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adiposity; Ankle fracture; Ilizarov; Obesity; Tibia fracture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANKLE ARTHRODESIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FIXATION DEVICE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMAN; ILIZAROV TECHNIQUE; MALE; MORBID OBESITY; NEUROPATHIC JOINT DISEASE; PILON FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROXIMAL TIBIA FRACTURE; TIBIA FRACTURE; VARUS DEFORMITY; WEIGHT BEARING; X RAY;

EID: 59449087036     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-008-0351-1     Document Type: Article

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