Intramedullary nailing for the treatment of aseptic femoral shaft non-unions after plating failure: Effectiveness and timing

Injury

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 732-737

  Megas, Panagiotis ^a   Syggelos, Spyros A ^a   Kontakis, Georgios ^b   Giannakopoulos, Andreas ^c   Skouteris, Georgios ^c   Lambiris, Elias ^a   Panagiotopoulos, Elias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c Asclepeion Voulas Hospital of Athens   (Greece)

Author keywords

Femoral shaft non unions; Intramedullary nailing

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR SHAFT; FRACTURE; HEALING; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MALE; OPEN FRACTURE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE NAILS; BONE PLATES; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349129438     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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