Talar neck and body fractures

Injury

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 120-135

  Rammelt, Stefan ^a   Zwipp, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avascular necrosis; Emergency treatment; Malunion; Open reduction; Screw fixation; Talar fracture

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANKLE ARTHRODESIS; ANKLE DISLOCATION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTHRITIS; ARTHROPLASTY; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMMINUTED FRACTURE; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOOT; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTERNAL FIXATOR; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OSTEOTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANGE OF MOTION; REVIEW; TALUS FRACTURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND INFECTION; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; TALUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BONE SCREWS; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TALUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 61549104675     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2008.01.021     Document Type: Review

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