Strong and light plaster casts?

Injury

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 890-893

  Stewart, Todd ^a   Cheong, Wen ^a   Barr, Victoria ^b   Tang, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b AIREDALE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forearm; Fracture; Orthopaedics; Plaster casts; Wrist

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAST APPLICATION; COST; PLASTER CAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; STRENGTH; THICKNESS; WEIGHT; WRIST FRACTURE;

CASTS, SURGICAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; PLIABILITY; TENSILE STRENGTH; WRIST INJURIES;

EID: 67650158419     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.01.122     Document Type: Article

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