Stabilisation of articular fractures of the distal humerus: Early experience with a novel perpendicular plate system

Injury

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 611-617

  Reising, K ^a   Hauschild, O ^a   Strohm, P C ^a   Suedkamp, N P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distal humerus fracture; Distal humerus plate; Perpendicular plate position

Indexed keywords

CEFUROXIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CUBITAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; ELBOW FRACTURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INTERNAL FIXATOR; MALE; OPEN FRACTURE; OPEN REDUCTION; OPERATION DURATION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OSTEOTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PROSTHESIS LOOSENING; RANGE OF MOTION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; ELBOW JOINT; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLECRANON PROCESS; OSTEOTOMY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNAR NEUROPATHIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349233816     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2008.12.018     Document Type: Article

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