Scaphoid excision and four-corner arthrodesis

Techniques in Orthopaedics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 58-61

  Sawyer, Gregory A ^a   Weiss, Arnold Peter C ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University Orthopedics Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

4 corner; Arthritis; Arthrodesis; Limited; Partial; Wrist

Indexed keywords

ARTHRALGIA; ARTHRODESIS; BONE GRAFT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXCISION; FOUR CORNER ARTHRODESIS; HUMAN; JOINT FUNCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RADIAL STYLOID IMPINGEMENT; RANGE OF MOTION; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SCAPHOID EXCISION; SCAPHOID NONUNION ADVANCED COLLAPSE; SCAPHOLUNATE ADVANCED COLLAPSE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WRIST DISEASE; WRIST PAIN; WRIST RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 68249111581     PISSN: 08859698     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BTO.0b013e3181a07f32     Document Type: Review

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