A new classification system predictive of complications in surgically treated pediatric humeral lateral condyle fractures

Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 602-605

  Weiss, Jennifer M ^a,b   Graves, Sara ^a,b   Yang, Scott ^a,b   Mendelsohn, Elliott ^a,b   Kay, Robert M ^a,b   Skaggs, David L ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Lateral condyle fracture; Pediatric; Retrospective review

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AGE; ARTHROGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTICULAR CARTILAGE; AVASCULAR NECROSIS; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CAST APPLICATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; JOINT STIFFNESS; KELOID; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT DURATION; ULCER;

AGE FACTORS; CASTS, SURGICAL; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HUMANS; HUMERAL FRACTURES; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 69749089752     PISSN: 02716798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BPO.0b013e3181b2842c     Document Type: Article

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