Operative versus nonoperative treatment of acute undisplaced and minimally displaced scaphoid waist fractures-A systematic review

Injury

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 268-273

  Modi, Chetan S ^a   Nancoo, Tamara ^a   Powers, David ^a   Ho, Kevin ^a   Boer, Ronald ^a   Turner, Stephen M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adults; Cast; Fracture fixation; Outcome; Scaphoid fractures; Systematic review; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAST APPLICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCAPHOID FRACTURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; FEMALE; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SCAPHOID BONE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; MALE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; SCAPHOID BONE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 61549116556     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2008.07.030     Document Type: Article

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